Riegl on the Baroque

Alois Riegl′s Die Entstehung der Barockkunst in Rom, published posthumously by Arthur Burda and Max Max Dvo ák in 1908, is the last of Riegl′s major works, which was translated into English. This was achieved by Andrew Hopkins and Arnold Witte in a volume of the Getty Research Institute Publications Program in 2010. The volume also includes three introductory essays by the editors themselves and Alina Payne on Riegl′s notions on the Baroque, its position in historiography and the editorial history of the original book, and it is added by a detailed bibliography of Riegl′s publications and the wide-ranging secondary literature as well as a useful glossary of the German terms essential to Riegl′s theory of art history and their explanation in English.