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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768 (Author)
Other Authors: Carter, David R., 1945- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2013.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.