| Description |
1 online resource |
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Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Winckelmann and the imagined community of classical scholarship, 1790-1930 -- Winckelmann in context. 'Placez moi dans un coin de Votre Bibliotheque' : Winckelmann's career in Germany and his self-positioning within the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters ; 'Kennzeichen der griechischen Meisterstucke' : Winckelmann's early Roman writings and the discourse of connoisseurship ; Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums and its earliest critical reception -- On the contours of Das Altertum and the possibility of its recovery : Heyne versus Wolf. Homeric questions : a late eighteenth-century priority dispute ; Heyne, Winckelmann and Altertumswissenschaft ; Conclusion : the problem of Wolf's Hellenism -- Altertumswissenschaft and the amateur : Johann Gottfried Herder. Heyne, Winckelmann and Wissenschaft |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768 fast |
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Classical antiquities -- Study and teaching -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
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Classical antiquities -- Historiography
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Classical antiquities -- Study and teaching
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191625992 |
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019162599X |
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0199695849 |
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9780199695843 |
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9780191755880 |
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0191755885 |
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