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August Schmarsow (1853- 1936) was a German art historian. He was born at Schildfeld, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and was educated in Zürich, Strassburg and Bonn. He became docent of the history of art at Göttingen in 1881, professor there in 1882, at Breslau in 1886, and went to Florence in 1892, and thence to Berlin in 1893. In 1888 he founded the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence, an institution to promote original research in the history of Italian art, now a German state institution. His writings are characterized by sound scholarship and acute criticism. He wrote biographies of David D'Angers, Ingres, and Prudhon in Dohme's Kunst und Kunstler; Raphael und Pinturicchio in Siena (1880). he also wrote:
