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Johann Joachim Winckelmann on art, architecture, and archaeology

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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Main Author: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim (Author, VerfasserIn)
Other Authors: Carter, David (Translator, ÜbersetzerIn, VerfasserIn einer Einleitung)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
German
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House , 2013
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt31nhzf
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Johann Joachim Winckelmann on art, architecture, and archaeology
Author Notes:translated with an introduction and notes by David R. Carter
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies
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Summary: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
On Art. Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture -- Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture -- 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 -- More Mature Thoughts on the Imitation of the Ancients with Respect to Drawing and the Art of Sculpture -- Description of the Most Excellent Paintings in the Dresden Gallery -- Reflections on Art -- Recalling the Observation of Works of Art -- On Grace in Works of Art -- Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome -- Treatise on the Capacity for Sensitivity to the Beautiful in Art and the Method of Teaching It -- On Architecture. Remarks on the Architecture of the Old Temples at Agrigento in Sicily -- Preliminary Report on Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients -- On Archaeology. Open Letter on the Herculanean Excavations.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Translated from the German
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 272 pages)
ISBN:1306168759
1571138463
1571138757
1571135200
9781306168755
9781571138460
9781571138750
9781571135209