Winckelmann's

Lessing begins his work by quoting the same passage from Winckelmann's essay “On the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks” that we quoted above

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art, published nine years after the essay on imitation, reaffirms his general commitment to contemporary aesthetics as well as his particular emphasis on a certain kind of mental condition as the ultimate source of physical beauty.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

So far, Lessing has merely rejected Winckelmann's analysis of the Laocoön statue on the basis of his own insistence that beauty is the primary aim of visual art as well as on Mendelssohn's distinction between arts that can represent one moment and arts that can represent a succession of moments.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Winckelmann's premises underlie his history of ancient art, the main claims of which are already evident in his 1755 essay

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

This description of the Laocoön has been of great interest to recent interpreters, but it was Winckelmann's earlier account that inspired the criticism of Lessing, whose Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, although not published until

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Winckelmann's second point is that the Greek climate and way of life was conducive to the development of art.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Schliemann ordered a Herrscherbild that combined Winckelmann's Greek nose with Hohenzollern facial hair.

Is the Mask a Hoax? 1999

Riedel seems to have noticed the different aspects of Winckelmann's theory: he distinguishes three kinds of Ideals in art: (1) real nature, (2) imagi - nary ideal nature, and (3) original creation with very

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

Winckelmann's influence: he had been permeated first by French, then by Italian seventeenth-century art theory.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

Winckelmann's Apollonian vision; and the expression of profound, universal emotion, as well as the sublime, to the beauty of appearance and illusion.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968