History of the Art of Antiquity

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann Introduction by Alex Potts Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave 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…