Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft

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.

• | By (Author): Katherine Harloe (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading) (Author)
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2013
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0199695849
• | ISBN-13: 9780199695843