| Contents | further to their conversation on Lehrter train station [Berlin], he explains the directions of modern art theory:literature on Mirabilia; panegyrical hero worship; history of the artists; enthusiastic art historians or hero worshippers - [Herman] Grimm, [Henry] Thode, [Ernst] Steinmann, [Max?] Burchardt, [Carl] Justi, [Carl] Neumann, [Adolph] Bayersdorfer, [Wilhelm] Bode, [Giovanni] Morelli, [Adolfo] Venturi, [Bernard] Berenson, [Georg] Gronau, [Hans] Mackowsky; the method of the history of artistic styles - [Hans] Semper, [Hans Ostenfeld] Lange, [Wilhelm] Vöge, Adolph Goldschmidt, [Carl] Groos, [Ernst?] Grosse, [Heinrich] Wölfflin, [August] Schmarsow, Warburg, [G. W. F.] Hegel, [Hippolyte] Taine, [Anton] Springer, [Julius von] Schlosser, [Josef] Strzygowski, [Franz] Wickhoff, Krauss, [Karl] Lamprecht, [Eugène] Müntz, [Cornelius] Gurlitt |