Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Portrait by Raphael Mengs, after 1755
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a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.
Born
9 December 1717 Stendal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire
Died
8 June 1768 (aged 50) Trieste, Habsburg Empire
Nationality
German
Known for
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ( The History of Art in Antiquity ; 1764) Contribution to the rise of the neoclassical movement
Fields
Archaeology, art history
Alma mater
University of Halle
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Germany
era
1600-1800
Influenced
Wickhoff, Justi, Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, George, Spengler, Strauss
Influences
Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Johann Friedrich Christ, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten