Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity - Harloe, Katherine (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century.