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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft - Classical Presences Harloe, Katherine (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)
Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft - Classical Presences
Harloe, Katherine (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)
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.
304 pages, 3 black and white in-text illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 29, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199695843 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 147 × 218 × 23 mm · 514 g |
| Language | English |