Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : $b with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art

by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS.

0:22

TO The Lord Scarsdale.

0:40

ON THE IMITATION OF THE Painting and Sculpture of the GREEKS. - I. Nature.

57:26

A LETTER, CONTAINING OBJECTIONS AGAINST The foregoing Reflexions.

50:56

AN ACCOUNT OF A MUMMY, IN The Royal Cabinet of Antiquities at Dresden.

11:03

AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING LETTER, AND A further Explication of the Subject.

1:25:27

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CONNOISSEUR.

17:43

ON GRACE.

12:59

ERRATA.

1:37

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Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2020-02-04

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Public domain in the USA.

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Subjects

Art, Greek Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 Art -- Philosophy N

About the author

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

1717–1768

Often called a founder of art history and scientific archaeology, he changed the way Europe looked at the art of ancient Greece and Rome. His writing on ideal beauty and classical sculpture shaped artists, scholars, and collectors for generations.

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