Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Translated by: David Carter

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 142 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Modern English translations of several of the most important essays of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history and archaeology and a strong influence on Goethe and Schiller and Weimar Classicism.

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Arts Arts, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Translator’s Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
On Art
Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture (1755–56) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture (1755–56) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Explanation of Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture and Response to the Open Letter on These Thoughts (1755–56) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
More Mature Thoughts on the Imitation of the Ancients with Respect to Drawing and the Art of Sculpture (1756–57) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Description of the Most Excellent Paintings in the Dresden Gallery (1752) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Reflections on Art (date unknown) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Recalling the Observation of Works of Art (1759) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
On Grace in Works of Art (1759) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome (1759) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Treatise on the Capacity for Sensitivity to the Beautiful in Art and the Method of Teaching It (1763) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
On Architecture
Remarks on the Architecture of the Old Temples at Agrigento in Sicily (1759) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Preliminary Report on Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients (1762) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
On Archaeology
Open Letter on the Herculanean Excavations (1762) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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eBook published on:

December 2, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9781571138460

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Camden House

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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280

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10 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571138460

eBook ISBN: 9781571138460

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Art; Architecture; Archaeology; Modern English Translations; Art History; Ancient Greek Architecture; Empirical Examinations; Artifacts; Modern Scientific Archaeology

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