Fill in the blank. The task of the _____________________ was the education of artists in the practice of an idealizing art in the classical tradition. The goal of the artist was to achieve perfection, 'le beau idéal,' which was learned over time by the study of the antique and of artists in that style.

MCQs on the outlines of the major methodologies used by art historians and traces the major methodological developments within the discipline from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century.