Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century.Winckelmann''s eloquent articulation of the cultural and aesthetic value of studying the ancient ...