‘Antiquity in Weimar’: Martin Dönike, Altertumskundliches Wissen in Weimar. Transformationen der Antike, Bd 25. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013

Review of a book on Goethe and his friends and their study of Antiquity, as gleaned from the publications they read. The figure of Winckelmann served as an example to these scholars and one of the editors of his works, C.L. Fernow, gave lectures on Greek art based on Winckelmann’s work. A series of...

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Main Author: Eric Moormann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/moorman-review.pdf