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'''Art history''' is the [[academic]] study of objects of [[art]] in their [[historical]] development and stylistic contexts, i.e. [[genre]], [[design]], [[format]], and [[look]].<ref>"[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=art%20history Art History]". WordNet Search - 3.0, princeton.edu</ref> Moreover, ''art history'' generally is the [[research]] of [[artist]]s and their cultural and social contributions.<ref>http://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/education/Connections.pdf</ref>

'''Art history''' is the [[academic]] study of objects of [[art]] in their [[historical]] development and stylistic contexts, i.e. [[genre]], [[design]], [[format]], and [[look]]. "[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=art%20history Art History]". WordNet Search - 3.0, princeton.edu Moreover, ''art history'' generally is the [[research]] of [[artist]]s and their cultural and social contributions.[http://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/education/Connections.pdf]

As a term, ''Art history'' (also ''history of art'') encompasses several methods of studying the [[visual arts]]; in common usage referring to the study of works of art and architecture. The definition is, however, wide-ranging, with aspects of the discipline overlapping upon [[art criticism]] and [[art theory]]. [[Ernst Gombrich]] observed that "the field of art history [is] much like [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]]'s [[Gaul]], divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".<ref>Ernst Gombrich (1996). ''The Essential Gombrich'', p. 7. London: Phaidon Press</ref> Works of art criticism and of art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history has turned.

As a term, ''Art history'' (also ''history of art'') encompasses several methods of studying the [[visual arts]]; in common usage referring to the study of works of art and architecture. The definition is, however, wide-ranging, with aspects of the discipline overlapping upon [[art criticism]] and [[art theory]]. [[Ernst Gombrich]] observed that "the field of art history [is] much like [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]]'s [[Gaul]], divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".<ref>Ernst Gombrich (1996). ''The Essential Gombrich'', p. 7. London: Phaidon Press</ref> Works of art criticism and of art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history has turned.