Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst

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Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst is an influential 18th-century aesthetic treatise that helped found modern art history by championing the ideals of classical Greek art.

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instanceOf aesthetic treatise
art theory text
book
addresses art lovers
artists
scholars of antiquity
advocates imitation of Greek art as a model of beauty
associatedWith Neoclassicism
author Johann Joachim Winckelmann
centuryOfPublication 18th century
circulation widely read in 18th-century Europe
countryOfOrigin Electorate of Saxony
Holy Roman Empire
critiques contemporary baroque and rococo styles
disciplineFounded foundational text of modern art history
field art criticism
classical studies
focusesOn Greek painting
Greek sculpture
genre essay
hasPart later appended essays and notes
main treatise text
historicalContext European Enlightenment
historicalSignificance helped establish art history as a scholarly discipline
influenced development of modern art history
neoclassical aesthetics
theory of classical ideal beauty
keyConcept noble simplicity and quiet grandeur
movement Enlightenment aesthetics
originalLanguage German
philosophicalOrientation classicist aesthetics
promotes study of antiquity as foundation for artistic practice
publicationYear 1755
publisherLocation Dresden
relatedWork Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
subject aesthetics
art history
classical Greek art
imitation in art
timePeriodDiscussed Classical Greece
surface form: classical Greece
translatedInto English
French
Italian

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann notableWork Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst