Josef Strzygowski Research Articles

The Rhetoric of Artifacts and the Decline of Classical Humanism: The Case of Josef Strzygowski

L'A. etudie le declin de l'humanisme classique engendre a la fin du siecle dernier par l'introduction en historiographie et en philologie de formes non-textuelles d'evidence. A travers l'exemple de l'historien de l'art autrichien J. Strzygowski, l'A. montre que le temoignage des artefacts permet de substituer a une definition romantique et nationaliste de la culture une approche non-elitiste et anthropologique de la culture, fondee sur des similitudes morphologiques

Early German Art and its Origins. From the beginnings to about 1050. By Harold Picton. With a foreword by Prof. Josef Strzygowski. 10¼ × 6½. Pp. xii + 148. London: Batsford, 1939. 21s.

Early German Art and its Origins. From the beginnings to about 1050. By Harold Picton. With a foreword by Prof. Josef Strzygowski. 10¼ × 6½. Pp. xii + 148. London: Batsford, 1939. 21s. - Volume 20 Issue 1

Origin of Christian Church Art. By Josef Strzygowski. Translated from the German by O. M. Dalton and H. J. Braunhohz. Pp. x + 267. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923.

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The Origin of Christian Church Art: New Facts and Principles of Research. By Josef Strzygowski. Translated from the German by O. M. Dalton, M.A., and H. J. Braunholtz, M.A. 10 × 7½; pp. xvii + 267. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1923. 42s.

The Origin of Christian Church Art: New Facts and Principles of Research. By Josef Strzygowski. Translated from the German by O. M. Dalton, M.A., and H. J. Braunholtz, M.A. 10 × 7½; pp. xvii + 267. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. 1923. 42s.

Strzygowski and His Theory of Early Christian Art

The study of the monuments of the early centuries of the Christian Era has hitherto received its inspiration from one or other of two sources. Christian scholars, like De Rossi and Wilpert and Kraus, have been interested in the subject because of its Christian content and significance, and classical scholars, like Wickhoff and Riegl, have studied the monuments of this period as the expiring forms of classic art. Both classes of scholars have, in great measure, confined their observations to the monuments of Italy, especially to those of Rome and to the distinctly Roman provinces. Against this point of view that “All roads lead to Rome,” a new battle-cry is raised, “Ex oriente lux.” It is not to Rome, but to Alexandria and Egypt, Ephesus and Asia Minor, Antioch and Syria, Jerusalem and Palestine, that we must look for the solution of early Christian and medieaval art. The new champion is Dr. Josef Strzygowski, and he is gathering adherents amongst the younger writers in various German universities.