Winckelmann, Johann Joachim; Irwin, David — Writings on Art

London, Phaidon, 1972. Hardcover. Small quarto. Hardcover. Dark purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; gold and green DJ with illustration and white and black lettering; x, 166 pp.; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), German scholar and art historian, was one of the most influential figures in the Neoclassical movement, which dominated European and American art in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth. From St. Petersburg to Philadelphia all aspects of the arts reflected this doctrine of the return to antiquity, and Winckelmann was its key interpreter..this anthology provides a unique and compact introduction to this influential eighteenth-century figure -- DJ. Good+ (Boards and textblock are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; ffeps are smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good- (DJ is lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.).