Wölfflin

[ German vœlf-lin ]

noun

1. E·du·ard [ey, -doo-ah, r, t], 1831–1908, Swiss classical scholar.
2. his son Hein·rich [hahyn, -, r, i, kh], 1864–1945, Swiss art historian.

Example Sentences

The dictionary’s founder, Eduard Wölfflin, who died in 1908, described entries in the T.L.L. not as definitions, but “biographies” of words.

From New York Times

The contrast isn’t without exceptions, but Wölfflin’s typology remains helpful: If Renaissance painting aimed to depict “the solid figure,” the art of the Baroque era favored “the changing appearance,” “movement” and “the form in function.”

From New York Times

Pevsner studied under Heinrich Wölfflin, whose Principles of Art History is included here.

From The Guardian

Critical edition of the Benedictine rule by Wölfflin, Leipsic, 1895; in Migne's edition there is an elaborate commentary with many illustrative extracts and formulæ, as well as traditional glosses.

From Project Gutenberg

This one illustration out of many not only discloses the fact that the Romance languages are to be connected with colloquial rather than with literary Latin, but it also shows how the line of investigation opened by Diez, and that followed by Wölfflin and his school, supplement each other.

From Project Gutenberg