Winckelmann

American  

[ving-kuhl-mahn] / ˈvɪŋ kəlˌmɑn /

noun

1. Johann Joachim 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.

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Winckelmann British  

/ ˈvɪŋkəlman /

noun

1. Johann Joachim (joˈhan ˈjoːaxɪm). 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian; one of the founders of neoclassicism

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Example Sentences

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, arguably the most influential art historian since the Renaissance’s own Giorgio Vasari, popularized the notion of whiteness in ancient marble sculptures in 1764 through two volumes on the topic.

From New York Times

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a German antiquarian of the 18th century, assured his countrymen that “the only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.”

From New York Times

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

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

The hugely influential German historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was typical in his florid veneration of Greek art.

From BBC