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The History of Ancient Art, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
The History of Ancient Art Vol 1 - Classic Reprint Author:Johann Joachim Winckelmann The greatest connoisseur and teacher of the beautiful in plastic art was born neither beneath the delicious sky of the South, nor in the lap of wealth. Providence, which, for the accomplishment of its purposes, strikes out ways peculiarly its own, called him from the humble dwelling of a cobbler at Stendal. In this city, which lies in a valley s... more »urrounded by heights, and traversed by the TJchte, m the ancient territory of Brandenburg, Winckclmann saw the light, on the 9th of December, 1717, - his birth occurring only a year later than that of John James Barthé-lemy, at Cassis, in Provence, the amiable author of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger, and the acute archaeologist. It would seem as if these two congenial, lofty spirits were born within a circumscribed period of time, to throw a lustre on the age in which they lived.
Winckelmann received, at his baptism, the two surnames of John Joakim, though he made use at a later period only of the former, either because
Table of Contents
Preface 149; Preface to the Notes 1GG; BOOK I; THE ORIGIN OF ART, AND THE CAUSES OF ITS DIFFERENCE AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS; CHAPTER I THE SHAPES WITH WHICH ART COMMENCED; % SECT PAGE; 1 General Idea of this History 191; 2, 3 General Idea of Art among the Egyptians, Etruscans, and; Greeks 191; 4 Commencement, Progress, and Decline of Art among the; Greeks 192; 5 Art commenced with Plastic Works 193 G Similarity in the Origin of Art among Different Nations 193 7 Antiquity of Art in Egypt, and its Causes 194; 8-11 Greek Art later, but original ; Stones and Columns the first; Images 19G; 12 Similarity of the first Figures among the Egyptians, Etruscans, and Greeks 198; 13- 17 Doubts in Regard to the Communication of Art to the Greeks; by the Egyptians 199; 18,19 Progress of Art, giving Action to Figures 203; 1 - 8 Clay the first Material 206; 0 Wood " 210; 10, 11 Ivory 212; 12 Stone ; at first, that wlrch was Native 213; 1« less