Johann Joachim Winckelmann (/ ˈ v ɪ ŋ k əl ˌ m ɑː n /; German: [ˈvɪŋkl̩man]; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek , Greco-Roman and Roman art .
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (/ ˈ v ɪ ŋ k əl ˌ m ɑː n /; German: [ˈvɪŋkl̩man]; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek , Greco-Roman and Roman art .
Johann Winckelmann, (born Dec. 9, 1717, Stendal, Prussia—died June 8, 1768, Trieste), German archaeologist and art historian whose writings directed popular taste toward classical art, particularly that of ancient Greece, and influenced not only Western painting and sculpture but also literature and even philosophy.
Johann Winckelmann, (born Dec. 9, 1717, Stendal, Prussia—died June 8, 1768, Trieste, Austria), German archaeologist and art historian. The son of a cobbler, he studied theology and medicine before he discovered Greek art.
Overview. One of the founders of the modern discipline of art history. Winckelmann was able to overcome immense difficulties of poverty to gain wide-spread success and influence as an influential art historian and esthetician. Born the son of Martin Winckelmann, a poor shoemaker, and Anna Maria Meyer (Winckelmann), the daughter of a weaver ...
Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Birth of Art History. Introduction; Who Was Winckelmann? Winckelmann in Rome; The History of the Art of Antiquity; The Ideal of Beauty; Desire and the Male Body; The Pitfalls of Reconstruction; Bibliography
Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Birth of Art History. Introduction; Who Was Winckelmann? Winckelmann in Rome; The History of the Art of Antiquity; The Ideal of Beauty; Desire and the Male Body; The Pitfalls of Reconstruction; Bibliography
WINCKELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM (1717 – 1768), German art historian, archaeologist, and philosopher of aesthetics, and one of the leading proponents of neoclassicism. Winckelmann is regarded as the first modern historian of art for his systematic treatment of ancient art as an expression of historical conditions, rather than as a tradition of ...