History of the Art of Antiquity

History of the Art of Antiquity by Winckelmann

In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written evidence then available into a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece. His passionate yet detailed inquiry investigates the idea of beauty over time and space, offering a chronological and descriptive account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. Alex Potts's introduction not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's indelible influence on European intellectual life - for both modern art history and archaeology commence with Winckelmann.

ALEX POTTS is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art and chair of the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. HARRY FRANCIS MALLGRAVE is an architectural historian and the translator of several other volumes in the Research Institute's Texts & Documents series.

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ISBN 13	9780892366682
ISBN 10	0892366680
Title	History of the Art of Antiquity
Author	Winckelmann
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Getty Trust Publications
Year published	2006-01-15
Number of pages	446
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