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
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
I’ll occasionally spend an hour or so there, feeling small and unimportant before the portraits of Kant and the great German archaeologist Johann Winckelmann.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2011
Winckelmann scarcely thinks anything of it, or at any rate does not give it its proper position; but I cannot praise it sufficiently.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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