Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Villa Albani, an 18th-century pleasure palace built to house a cardinal's antiquities collection, still bears the mark of German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, that collection's curator.

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As guiding spirit of the society's Specimens of Antient Sculpture ... selected from Different Collections in Great Britain, published in 1809, he had attempted to establish a definitive history of ancient art along the lines laid down by the German connoisseur Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009

Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Enquête sur la genèse de l'histoire de l'art.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), the son of a poor cobbler from Prussia, studied at Halle and Jena, and from the age of twenty-four to twenty-nine was a school teacher.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Mendelssohn's thesis that the visual arts must convey all of their content through their representation of an object at a single moment while other arts can represent movements and actions in, as we would say, real time, would be used as a premise in a famous controversy between his friend Lessing and the renowned historian of ancient art Johann Joachim Winckelmann, to which we will turn in a moment.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

But Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the German prefect of antiquities at the Vatican, preferred white.

Setting the Record Straight 2007

The mask's long, thin Hellenic nose makes me suspicious, as if it were created to fit the idea of Greek nobility articulated by the influential eighteenth-century German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

Is the Mask a Hoax? 1999

Ever since Johann Joachim Winckelmann and more specifi - cally since the late nineteenth century, under the influ - ence of such scholars as Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

Stoics, and certainly in modern times with the very early romantic Johann Joachim Winckelmann — that dualities were the embodiment of an indissoluble union of beauty, harmony, symmetry, etc., and that promi - nent Greeks were likely to have statues of Pindaresque symmetry, even if a Herodotus, Socrates, Aristotle, and even Plato would hardly conform to this physical ideal au naturel.

SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

The swing towards a Greek taste was also much aided by the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whose scholarly approach made possible an assessment of

NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART DAVID IRWIN 1968