: Katherine Harloe
: Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft
: OUP Oxford
: 9780191625992
: 1
: CHF 79.10
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: Altertum
: English
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.