Johann Joachim Winckelmann on art, architecture, and archaeology

Contents

On Art. Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture -- Open Letter on Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture -- Explanation of Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture and Response to the Open Letter on These Thoughts -- More Mature Thoughts on the Imitation of the Ancients with Respect to Drawing and the Art of Sculpture -- Description of the Most Excellent Paintings in the Dresden Gallery -- Reflections on Art -- Recalling the Observation of Works of Art -- On Grace in Works of Art -- Description of the Torso in the Belvedere in Rome -- Treatise on the Capacity for Sensitivity to the Beautiful in Art and the Method of Teaching It -- On Architecture. Remarks on the Architecture of the Old Temples at Agrigento in Sicily -- Preliminary Report on Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients -- On Archaeology. Open Letter on the Herculanean Excavations.