741 A much shorter version of this paper was given at a conference in Vienna in 2005 marking the centenary of Riegl’s death. My thanks are due to Artur Rosenauer and Georg Vasold for their kind invitation and to the participants for discussion. I am particularly grateful to a number of friends for surviving the infliction of an early draft and for punishing me with useful critiques as a result—especially Milette Gaifman, Margaret Olin, Joel Snyder, and Jeremy Tanner. I am grateful, too, to the editors of Critical Inquiry for their comments and suggestions. From Empirical Evidence to the Big Picture: Some Reflections on Riegl’s Concept of Kunstwollen