Flesh and the ideal : Winckelmann and the origins of art history /

"Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, in the...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Art & Architecture ePortal
Main Author: Potts, Alex (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
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