ca.1860 portrait print JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN, #114
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ca.1860 portrait print JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN, #114. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. Many consider him the father of the discipline of art history. His writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy. Portrait114 ca.1860 portrait print JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN, #114 Portrait print titled Winkelmann, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, approx. page size 23 x 14.5 cm, approx. image size is 7 x 6 cm. Print was published in Germany by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen. Johann Joachim Winckelmann Johann Joachim Winckelmann (December 9, 1717 – June 8, 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. Called, "[t]he prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art. Many consider him the father of the discipline of art history. His would be the decisive influence on the rise of the neoclassical movement during the late 18th century. His writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy. Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art (1764) was one of the first books written in German to become a classic of European literature. His subsequent influence on Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, George, and Spengler has been provocatively called "the Tyranny of Greece over Germany." Today, Humboldt University of Berlin's Winckelmann Institute is dedicated to the study of classical archaeology.
