Como indica el editor en la introducción que precede al texto, Antal analiza el arte de Italia Central del siglo XVI a partir de un fenómeno específico: la "coexistencia" de manierismo y clasicismo. "Hasta aquí –afirma Hadjinicolaou– todo el mundo podría estar más o menos de acuerdo con él. Pero el siguiente paso, la afirmación de que la mayor parte del siglo XVI está dominada por la lucha entre arte clásico y arte manierista, sería ya irritante para algunos y le granjearía la hostilidad d...

First published in 1966, Classicism and Romanticism is a collection of important articles originally published in the author's famous book, Florentine Painting and its Social Background. Dr. Antal, a Hungarian by birth, was a man of the wildest culture. He studied art history in the universities of Budapest, Berlin, Paris and Vienna; thereafter, he travelled extensively in Italy, where he devoted himself to pioneering research in the history of mannerist painting. His exc...

First published in 1956, Fuseli Studies deals with the many-sided artistic achievements of Zurich-born Fuseli’s baffling personality, who was one of the most erudite and renowned intellectuals of his day in Europe. The author’s intention has been to place his subject in clear historical perspective within his own epoch, and thus traces Fuseli’s contacts back to sixteenth-century mannerism and forward to twentieth-century expressionism. In this book, the social background of that a...

First published in 1962, Hogarth and his Place in European Art attempts to convey the historical relevance, both in its native and European context, of perhaps the most outstanding English painter of the eighteenth century. Dr. Antal applies his method of establishing the close relationship between the political and social history and the arts and letters of the period. Thus, the book goes far beyond the limits of art historical appreciation. It gives a panoramic picture of the fi...