Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks:

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks:

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: - with instructions for the connoisseur, and an...
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Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks:

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks:

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Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks:

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Author: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim,1717-1768
Format: eBook
Language: English

Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: - with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art

If I have been able to do justice to my Author, your Lordships accurate Jugment, and fine Taste, will naturally protect his Work: But I must rely wholly on your[vi] known Candour and Goodness for the pardon of many imperfections in the language. To the Greek climate we owe the production of Taste, and from thence it spread at length over all the politer world. Every invention, communicated by foreigners to that nation, was but the feed of what it became afterwards, changing[2] both its nature and size in a country, chosen, as Plato[1] says, by Minerva, to be inhabited by the Greeks, as productive of every kind of genius. But this Taste was not only original among the Greeks, but seemed also quite peculiar to their country: it seldom went abroad without loss; and was long ere it imparted its kind influences to more distant climes. It was, doubtless, a stranger to the northern zones, when Painting and Sculpture, those offsprings of Greece, were despised there to such a degree, that the most valuable pieces of Corregio served only for blinds to the windows of the royal stables at Stockholm. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61317
Author: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Release Date: Feb 4, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825

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