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Gestalt theory emerges as the master key to interpreting Sedlmayr and Pächt's ideas about art and history and how it affected their practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis fresh interpretive apparatus casts light on the power and originality of Sedlmayr's and Pächt's theoretical and empirical writings, revealing a practice-based approach to history that is more attuned to the visuality of art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVerstegen demonstrates the existence of a genealogy of Vienna formalism coursing throughout most of the twentieth century, encompassing Johannes Wilde and his students at the Courtauld as well as Otto Demus in Byzantine studies. 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