3. Title-page of the 1764 edition of Winckelmann’s History of the...

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Description: History of the Art of Antiquity: Title-page

TitleHistory of the Art of Antiquity: Title-page

Creator nameWinckelmann, Johann Joachim

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1764

Object typePrint

MaterialsEngraving

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LocationUnknown

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SubjectsAntiquities in artSoldiers in artArmor in art

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I. Inventing a History of Art

Alex Potts

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity soon acquired an international reputation after it was published in German in 1764. Initially it reached a non-German public by way of extracts and summaries in literary journals such as the Journal Encyclopédique and then by a succession of Italian and French translations, the first of which appeared in French in 1766. The book originated from and spoke eloquently to a cosmopolitan European community for which ancient Rome was a crucial point of …

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Alex Potts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-46

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00050.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14694&redirecttoanchor=13233

Chapter subject tags:Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768Art--HistoriographyInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Art criticism--History

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