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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Few if any non-fiction books have given more joy over the past 75 years than Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art, ...

EH Gombrich's history of the world for young readers became an instant success when first published in Austria in 1935. The author was a 26-year-old unemployed graduate when, armed with an ...

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, 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) ...

"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 ...

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 ...