Definition of "art history" []

• The study of the history of the visual arts (noun)

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• "As a part of my program of sedulous application, I began to haunt the Columbia University library, where I had been sent by a teacher to research an art history project."
• "In all of art history is there no more masterful heroic struggle than Berlioz waged for thirty-five years, firm in his belief that some time, if not during his own life, his principles would be triumphant, and his name ranked among the immortals."
• "He later studied history with Ranke at Berlin before developing the interest in art history which was to be his main concern in later years."