History Enhanced Scope and Sequence: WHI

German archaeologist and historian (first modern art historian) Johann Joachim Winckelmann was the leading theoretician of Neoclassicism. He was an advocate of the classical style. In 1755, Winckelmann published a pamphlet, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture, in which he attacked the Rococo as decadent and argued that only by imitating Greek art could … ................
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