Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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 Gr sse" (noble simplicity and a calm greatness) became a watchword. He contributed to modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135200
• ISBN13: 9781571135209
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"