Dogmatica e «criteri basilari» della storia dell’arte. Wölfflin negli scritti di Betti

Luca Vargiu

2021-01-01

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Abstract

The relevance assigned by Betti to Wölfflin’s Grundbegriffe within the technical interpretation has not attracted the interest of scholars so far. The following pages try to offer a first analysis, according to the main points of Betti’s reading and the problems that emerge: Betti’s reception of Wölfflin’s “aisthetic” approach, the problem of formalism and the role played by the Grundbegriffe within the relationship between Problemgeschichte and Geistesgeschichte, the problem of the distinction between a “first” and a “second” Wölfflin, the question of the value freedom of art historiography.