Sir Ernst Gombrich, who has died aged 92, was the most eminent art historian of the last half-century, both for specialist scholars and for a wider public. The Story of Art (1950, 16th edition 1995) ...

When we ask upon what the survival of culture depends, we immediately think of those individuals whose careers exemplify the commitment to the values of high culture. It is curious to what extent the ...

The late Sir Ernst Gombrich wrote A Little History of the World in 1936, in German. The book tells the story of human kind from the stone age to the atomic bomb and has been translated into 17 ...

Ernst Gombrich, 92, the scholar whose “The Story of Art” became one of the most famous and popular books on art ever published, died Saturday in London. Published in 1950 and now in its 16th edition, ...

In 1935, Ernst Gombrich, scion of a bourgeois Viennese Jewish family, and newly minted Ph.D. in art history, found himself out of work. Walter Neurath, a friend and publisher, asked him to look over ...

"My grandfather, Ernst Gombrich, is best known as an art historian", writers Leonie Gombrich in this gem of a book, which came before his better-known The Story of Art. This is an illustrated edition ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday December 4 2006 The strapline on this article describes Charles Saumarez Smith as the "new" ...

SIR ERNST GOMBRICH, who has died aged 92, became, as E H Gombrich, the best known art historian in Britain, perhaps in the world, through his books The Story of Art and Art and Illusion. The Story of ...

SIR ERNST GOMBRICH, who has died aged 92, became, as E H Gombrich, the best known art historian in Britain, perhaps in the world, through his books The Story of Art and Art and Illusion. The Story of ...