45. Wounded Amazon, marble, Metropolitan Museum, New York.

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TitleWounded Amazon

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1st–2nd century A.D.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsHeight 80 1/4 in. (203.8 cm)

LocationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253373

Accession number32.11.4

SubjectsAmazons in artWounds and injuries in artDrapery in artMarble sculpture, Roman

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VII. Afterlife

Alex Potts

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

Among many ways in which I might have defined the historical afterlife of Winckelmann’s work, I have deliberately singled out two very loaded engagements with his image of the Greek ideal, the first connected with the politics of the 1789 French Revolution and the second with late nineteenth-century aestheticism and definitions of homosexual identity. In each instance, a distinctive combination of historical circumstances made Winckelmann’s conception of Greek art particularly compelling as the …

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Alex Potts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.222-253

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00050.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14700&redirecttoanchor=13274

Chapter subject tags:Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)AestheticsDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Pater, Walter, 1839-1894

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