Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell and Brewer
- Date of Publication 10 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781640142190
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 228x152x15 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b/w illus. 700
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Short description:
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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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.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the Weimar Classicism of Goethe and Schiller, for whom his description of Greek sculpture as evoking "edle Einfalt und stille Grösse" (noble simplicity and a calm greatness) became a watchword. He contributed to modern scientific archaeology through his application of empirically derived categories of style to the analysis of classical works of art and architecture, and was one of the first to undertake detailed empirical examinations of artifacts and describe them precisely in a way that enabled reasoned conclusions to be drawn about ancient societies and their cultures. Yet several of his important essays are not available in modern English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by collecting four of Winckelmann's most seminal essays on art along with several shorter pieces on the topic, two major if brief essays on architecture and one longer essay on archaeology. Paired with this is an introduction covering Winckelmann's life and work.
