Winckelmann
Americannoun
noun
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When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were first excavated, in the mid-eighteenth century, Winckelmann saw some of their artifacts in Naples, and noticed color on them.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018
Art history itself, in fact, is a Greek-German invention; it was 18th-century Prussian aesthetes, most prominently Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who first systematized the art of the past, and placed Greece at the summit.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2017
The hugely influential German historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was typical in his florid veneration of Greek art.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2015
Winckelmann authenticated a supposedly Roman fresco concocted by Mengs.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2013
And even the portrait ought to be, as Winckelmann says, the ideal of the individual.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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