History of the Art of Antiquity

. Winckelmann, Alex Potts, Harry Francis Mallgrave

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Getty Trust Publications
15 January 2006

"In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his ""Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums"", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written evidence then available into a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece. His passionate yet detailed inquiry investigates the idea of beauty over time and space, offering a chronological and descriptive account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. Alex Potts's introduction not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's indelible influence on European intellectual life - for both modern art history and archaeology commence with Winckelmann."

By: . Winckelmann
Introduction by: Alex Potts
Translated by: Harry Francis Mallgrave
Imprint: Getty Trust Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 251mm, Width: 179mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 1.196kg
ISBN: 9780892366682
ISBN 10: 0892366680
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 15 January 2006
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

ALEX POTTS is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art and chair of the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. HARRY FRANCIS MALLGRAVE is an architectural historian and the translator of several other volumes in the Research Institute's Texts & Documents series.

Reviews for History of the Art of Antiquity

"""Mallgrave's fluent and perceptive translation of Winckelmann's History establishes a most worthy alternative [to Henry Lodge's mid-19th-century version], especially when coupled with Alex Potts's excellent, informative introduction to this seminal work. [This] volume is a must for all those interested in the evolution of art history as a humanistic discipline.""-- ""Choice"" (6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM) ""Much that Potts writes here...on Winckelmann's intellectual origins, his career as a writer, the sources of his ideas about environmental influence and about the superiority of Greek civilization will be found very useful.""-- ""London Review of Books"" (1/4/2007 12:00:00 AM) ""That a new edition of Winckelmann's long-since classic main work reminds...[his] art fantasies deserves respect.""-- ""Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"" (6/21/2006 12:00:00 AM)"