Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, by the Abbé Winkelmann, translated by Henry Fusseli
by Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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- Author
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768
- Title
- Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- N: Fine Arts
- Subject
- Art -- Philosophy
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61317
- Release Date
- February 4, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS .
- 2.TO The Lord Scarsdale .
- 3.ON THE IMITATION OF THE Painting and Sculpture of the GREEKS. — I. Nature. — II. Contour. — III. Drapery. — IV. Expression. — V. Workmanship in Sculpture. — VI. Painting. — VII. Allegory.
- 4.A LETTER, CONTAINING OBJECTIONS AGAINST The foregoing Reflexions .
- 5.AN ACCOUNT OF A MUMMY, IN The Royal Cabinet of Antiquities at Dresden .
- 6.AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING LETTER, AND A further Explication of the Subject .
- 7.INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CONNOISSEUR.
- 8.ON GRACE.
- 9.FOOTNOTES
- 10.ERRATA. — Transcriber’s Note
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