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Winckelmann and curiosity in the 18th-century gentleman's library : Christ Church Upper Library, 29 June - 26 October 2018 / edited by Katherine Harloe, Cristina Neagu and Amy C. Smith.
LIBRA N7483.W5 H37 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768--Influence--Exhibitions.
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim.
- Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768.
- Art, Modern--18th century--History.
- Art, Modern.
- History.
- Art, Classical--Collectors and collecting--Europe.
- Art, Classical.
- Art historians as collectors.
- Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Antiquities.
- Art, Classical--Collectors and collecting.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Exhibitions.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 134 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Christ Church Library, 2018.
- Summary:
- Like many antiquarians of his day, the German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717?1768) first learned about the ancient world through immersion in literature. As a teacher then librarian in his native Germany, Winckelmann encountered the classics primarily through literary texts, as well as the souvenirs--coins, gems and figurines--that Grand Tourists and other travellers had brought north from their visits to Italy. Once he arrived in Rome, where he rose to prominence at Prefect of Antiquities in the Vatican, Winckelmann studied the remains of Greek, Graeco-Roman and Roman art on a larger scale. Through personal contacts, letters and other writings, Winckelmann influenced his and subsequent generations of scholars, aesthetes, collectors, craftsmen and artists both within and beyond Italy.00Exhibition: Christ Church Library (Upper Library), Oxford, UK (29.06.-26.10.2018).
- Contents:
- Preface by Katherine Harloe. Part I. Setting the scene: Chapter 1. Greek vases in Naples' ottocento laboratory of curiosity by Amy C. Smith; Chapter 2. Christ Church gentlemen and their collections-Time for a New Library by Cristina Neagu; Chapter 3.?The beautiful spirit of antiquity?: Pompeii and Herculaneum as inspiration for Neoclassical interior schemes in 18th-century Europe by Nicola Pickering; Chapter 4. Winckelmann, Morrison and the aspirant gentleman by Fiona Gatty. Part II. The catalogue: Exhibition handlist; An Aphrodite in Christ Church. Some comments on appearance and provenance by Sadie Pickup.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gemmill Family Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781872333663
- 1872333664
- OCLC:
- 1054115385
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