In this text, the author examines the ways to construct art history and their pedagogical developments. His references are Paul Valéry's concepts about art and history expressed in his theoretical writings, the German philosopher Konrad Fiedler and the Italian historian and art critic Carlo L. Ragghianti. Astonished in the trust others have given to general definitions of historical periods, the author opposes the truth and concreteness of the existing art works of all times - that have their own languages, their own structures - to the historical reconstruction, which is not able to make the past revive fully, and is always a partial glaze to a past that doesn't exist anymore, which arrives to us fragmented and with enormous gaps to be filled.
Art education; art history; historical truth; art criticism methods; El Greco; Chagall
