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Ideas of Johann Winckelmann, by Text

[German, 1717 - 1768, Librarian. Classical scholar. A founder of both archaeology and art history.]

1764	History of Ancient Art

p.93

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Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression [Tolstoy]