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    Johann Joachim Winckelmann (/ˈvɪŋkəlˌmɑːn/; German: [ˈvɪŋkl̩man]; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a...
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  • Johann Just Winckelmann (19 August 1620 – 3 July 1699) was a German writer and historian. Under his pseudonym Stanislaus Mink von Wennsshein (also Wenusheim...
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  • operatic tenor and director Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), German art historian and archaeologist Johann Just Winckelmann (1620–1699), German writer...
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  • non-fiction July 1798–1801: Propyläen, periodical 1805: "Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert" ("Winckelmann and His Century") 1774: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers...
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    painted as a practical joke on the eighteenth-century art critic Johann Winckelmann who was growing desperate in his search for homoerotic Greek and Roman...
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    Goethe to make the trip. More importantly, however, the work of Johann Joachim Winckelmann had provoked a general renewed interest in the classical art of...
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    down upon the Goths the statues adorning Hadrian's Mausoleum, and Johann Winckelmann speculated that the place of discovery and the statue's condition...
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    Naples. The text was written by d'Hancarville with contributions by Johann Winckelmann. A further three volumes were produced in 1769–76. During his first...
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  • Italian cook and criminal, the murderer of the famous art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768). A native of Campiglio di Cireglio, hamlet of the...
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    replaced it. The sculpture came into the possession of prince Chigi. Johann Winckelmann described this sculpture in his Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums...
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  • reference to male–male attractions. The work of the German art historian Johann Winckelmann was a major influence on the formation of classical ideals in the...
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  • the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art")...
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  • Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1795) 1717: December 9 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art critic and archaeologist (d. 1768) 1715: February...
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    in Rome and shows the notable archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann reading from a book, which is resting on a bas-relief showing...
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    Göttingen. Both were influenced by Johann Gottfried Herder, Immanuel Kant, Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Johann Winckelmann and Karl Theodor von Dalberg. From...
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    allotted to Greek art (Greek revival) extolled among others by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.[citation needed] He remarked that...
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    time exploring the antiquities of the city under the guidance of Johann Winckelmann. During their travels the couple also met Pietro Nardini and in 1767...
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    at Jena, and in the following year received a new impulse from J.W. Winckelmann and Balthasar Mentzer at Marburg. He graduated in 1605 and began to give...
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  • piano factory Zeitter & Winkelmann [de]. Other ancestors included Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Hans was trained by his father to play Wagnerian tenor and studied...
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    in art. He was a stout champion of Winckelmann's advocacy of reform on antique lines. He also befriended Winckelmann, who lived with him and his family...
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    term introduced primarily during the European Romantic era by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. As a neoclassical movement distinct from other Roman or Greco-Roman...
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    well as concerts, conferences and meetings. The Winckelmann Museum is named after Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the founder of classical archaeology. Its holdings...
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    increasingly important relative to that of Latin. In this period Johann Winckelmann's claims for the superiority of the Greek visual arts influenced a...
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    Forum there. Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst, and also annotated some of the works of...
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    Lycurgus' Leocracea (1834) and Oratores Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of Plato (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance...
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    and the eighteenth-century German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is the first black professor of Classics in the UK, and the...
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  • Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer...
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    of Geschichte der Kunst des Alterhums Vol. 1 (1776) by Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Winckelmann was a pioneer in the study of Graeco-Roman art and ancient...
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    Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities, curated by Winckelmann. The villa has been conserved...
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    Plato (1839–1841, including the old scholia, in collaboration with A. W. Winckelmann) and Tacitus (1846–1848) also deserve mention. In 1832 he became a third-class...
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