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

Name: Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art
Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann

by Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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Project Gutenberg

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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)

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2020-02-04

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Public domain in the USA.

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

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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