Winckelmann
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noun
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Winckelmann, who is sometimes called the “father of art history,” judged Greek marble sculpture to be the summit of human achievement — unsurpassed by any other society, ancient or modern.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
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
And modern Greece was nothing like the country that had been idolised by Winckelmann and his fellow intellectuals.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2015
Winckelmann authenticated a supposedly Roman fresco concocted by Mengs.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2013
Such is the case with the æsthetic systems, with the truths and errors of men like Winckelmann, Lessing, Hegel, or Taine; but it is not so with the æsthetic system of Ruskin.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee
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