The specific cultural centers and spheres of interest of deeper research have slowly migrated from the West to the East during the last human age: from Rome to Greece, from Greece to Crete and Asia Minor, then to the Jews and Hittites, and now India is beginning to become a true new and wondrous land for art historical research as well as for the humanities in general. The present work is a colorful journey through art history, written amidst the turmoil of the First World War. Fritz Burger died in 1916; this book is his legacy. Carefully edited reprint of the original edition from 1918.