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Works. Selections. English. 1972
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- Summary
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Winckelmann was a German classical archaeologist and art historian who is considered the founder of neoclassicism and of systematic art history.
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- Creator
- Winckelmann ; selected and edited by David Irwin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [London] : Phaidon, 1972
- Physical Details
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- x, 166 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 071481508X, 9780714815084
- OCLC
- ocm00282060, ocm00282060
- Distributed in the United States of America by Praeger Publishers, New York.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162).
- Winckelmann: Life and reputation -- Classical antiquity and its interpretation -- Art, theory and morality -- Romanticism -- Winckelmann as art historian -- Texts. On the imitation of the painting and sculpture of the Greeks (1755) -- Remarks on the architecture of the ancients (1762) -- Essay on the beautiful in art (1763) -- History of ancient art (1764) -- Attempt at an allegory (1766) -- Notes to the texts