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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft

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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft - Harloe, Katherine
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This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century. Winckelmann's eloquent articulation of the cultural and aesthetic value of studying the ancient Greeks, his adumbration of a new method for studying ancient artworks, and his provision of a model of cultural-historical ...

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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft 2013, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199695843

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