Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity by Harloe & Katherine Lecturer in Classics & University of Reading

Oxford University Press
Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity by Harloe & Katherine Lecturer in Classics & University of Reading
Product Specifications
  • Title: Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity by Harloe & Katherine Lecturer in Classics & University of Reading
  • Author: Harloe & Katherine Lecturer in Classics & University of Reading
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • History of art art & design styles
  • No. of pages: 304
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 218 x 147 x 23

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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.