Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History by Alex Potts

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Alex Potts

304 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum...

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