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Article: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim (1717–1768)
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WINCKELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM (1717
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1768)
WINCKELMANN, JOHANN JOACHIM
(1717
–
1768), German art historian, archaeologist, and philosopher of aesthetics, and one of the leading proponents of neoclassicism. Winckelmann
is regarded as the first modern historian of art for his systematic treatment of ancient art as an expression of historical conditions, rather than as a tradition of artistic skills and ideas passed from one generation of artists to the next, which was the arthistorical approach practiced by Giorgio Vasari (1511
–
1574), Karl van Mander (1548
–
1606), and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613
–
1696) in their
Lives
of artists.
Winckelmann was born on 9 ...