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Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks
Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks
Table of Contents
TO. The Lord Scarsdale
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
A. LETTER, CONTAINING. OBJECTIONS. AGAINST. The foregoing Reflexions
AN. ACCOUNT. OF A. MUMMY, IN. The Royal Cabinet of Antiquities at Dresden
AN. ANSWER. TO THE FOREGOING. LETTER, AND. A further Explication of the Subject
INSTRUCTIONS. FOR THE. CONNOISSEUR
ON. GRACE
Footnote
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
With instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art
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The Expression of so great a soul is beyond the force of mere nature. It was in his own mind the artist was to search for the strength of spirit with which he marked his marble. Greece enjoyed artists and philosophers in the same persons; and the wisdom of more than one Metrodorus directed art, and inspired its figures with more than common souls.
Had Laocoon been covered with a garb becoming an antient sacrificer, his sufferings would have lost one half of their Expression. Bernini pretended to perceive the first effects of the operating venom in the numbness of one of the thighs.
