Winckelmann

[ ving-kuhl-mahn ]

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Jo·hann Jo·a·chim [yoh, -hahn , yoh, -ah-, kh, im], 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.

Winckelmann

/ ˈvɪŋkəlman /

WinckelmannJohann Joachim17171768MGermanHISTORY: archaeologistHISTORY: historian Johann Joachim (joˈhan ˈjoːaxɪm). 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian; one of the founders of neoclassicism

Yea, if there were only as much paganism as Goethe found and glorified in Winckelmann, even that would not be much.

To the relief of Antinous Winckelmann gave the place of honour which it now occupies.

Winckelmann gloated over their beauty, for he united the artist's appreciation to the connoisseurship of the archologist.

Winckelmann, says: Those with the figures or heads of Serapis or Anubis incised upon them are of this period.

Winckelmann and his immediate successors saw the ashes cleared from the first Pompeian wall-paintings.

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