Style of art

...distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories.

— Style of art

...any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made.

— Style of art

We do not exactly know the sociological reason for reverence for the past; it may be rooted in tribal and famly solidarity or in the endeavour of the privileged classes to base their privileges on heredity. However that may be, the feeling that what is old must be better is still so strong that art historians and archaeologists do not shrink even from historical falsification when attempting to prove that the style of art which appeals to them most is also the oldest.

— Style of art

The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of art.

— Style of art