Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture (1755–56)

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translator’s Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. On Art
6. Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture (1755–56) 31
7. Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture (1755–56) 57
8. 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) 81
9. More Mature Thoughts on the Imitation of the Ancients with Respect to Drawing and the Art of Sculpture (1756–57) 115
10. Description of the Most Excellent Paintings in the Dresden Gallery (1752) 117
11. Reflections on Art (date unknown) 127
12. Recalling the Observation of Works of Art (1759) 129
13. On Grace in Works of Art (1759) 137
14. Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome (1759) 143
15. Treatise on the Capacity for Sensitivity to the Beautiful in Art and the Method of Teaching It (1763) 149
16. On Architecture
17. Remarks on the Architecture of the Old Temples at Agrigento in Sicily (1759) 171
18. Preliminary Report on Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients (1762) 183
19. On Archaeology
20. Open Letter on the Herculanean Excavations (1762) 191
21. Notes 251
22. Select Bibliography 271