Modern Theories of Art 1: From Winckelmann to BaudelaireThis is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, underwent a radical transformation, as a result of which the intellectual foundations of our modern views on the arts were formed. Because this transformation can only be understood when seen in a broad