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Description: Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
The novelty of Winckelmann’s history of ancient art did not just consist of his representing the entire history of the ancient Greek and Roman tradition in terms of a systematic pattern of rise and decline. He also gave this bare schema a more richly articulated, specifically visual character by tracing the evolution of ancient Greek art through an archaic, a high, a beautiful, and an imitative phase. The crucial distinction he introduced between the high and the beautiful, as two equally valid …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.67-112
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00050.006

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