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    Johann Just Winckelmann, also Johann Justus Winckelmann (19 August 1620 – 3 July 1699) was a German writer, historian and mnemonist. Under his pseudonym...
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  • operatic tenor and director Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), German art historian and archaeologist Johann Just Winckelmann (1620–1699), German writer...
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  • and published it in 1834. The system was further developed by Johann Just Winckelmann (pseudonym Stanislaus Mink von Weunsshein and published in 1648...
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  • Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer...
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    favourite Italian niece of Cardinal Mazarin (b. 1646) July 3 – Johann Just Winckelmann, German writer and historian (b. 1620) July 10 – Pier Martire Armani...
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    British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (d. 1732) August 19 – Johann Just Winckelmann, German writer and historian (d. 1699) August 22 – Alexander Rigby...
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    Goethe to make the trip. More importantly, however, the work of Johann Joachim Winckelmann had provoked a general renewed interest in the classical art of...
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    British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (d. 1732) August 19 – Johann Just Winckelmann, German writer and historian (d. 1699) August 22 – Alexander Rigby...
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    allotted to Greek art (Greek revival) extolled among others by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.[citation needed] He remarked that...
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  • favourite Italian niece of Cardinal Mazarin (b. 1646) July 3 – Johann Just Winckelmann, German writer and historian (b. 1620) July 10 – Pier Martire Armani...
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  • heldentenor Johann Just Winkelmann (1620–1699) Maria Margarethe Winckelmann (1670–1720), German astronomer known as Maria Margarethe Kirch (née Winckelmann) Stephan...
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    Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Johann Joachim Winckelmann – to house Albani's collection of antiquities, curated by Winckelmann. The villa has been conserved...
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    dropped the twins in the standing water out of simple laziness. The fig tree just happened to be the first spot they came to and they figured the twins would...
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    simplicity and quiet grandeur" which contemporary art critic Johann Joachim Winckelmann held to be the unique characteristic of Hellenistic art. So great...
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    of the time period around the early 16th century described by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in 1764. Extending the general rubric of Renaissance culture,...
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    "Winckelmann, Johann Joachim". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 707 "WINCKELMANN,...
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  • writer Ludwig von Siegen (1609 – c. 1680 ?), inventor of mezzotint Johann Just Winckelmann (1620 – 1699) writer, historian Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg...
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    lightning strike of 65 BC. The 18th-century German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann attributed the statue to an Etruscan maker in the fifth century...
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    Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (German: [ˈʃliːman]; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist...
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    a good deal of time in Italy, where the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) described him as being "one of those worn-out beings...
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    Neoclassicism was born in Rome, largely due to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann during the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Its popularity...
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    collection just at this moment. Winckelmann's last letter, penned in the Trieste inn the night he was murdered by a young man he had just picked up, was...
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    – German field marshal in Russian service (Lossow, 1841) 124. Johann Joachim Winckelmann – archeologist and art writer (R. Schadow, 1814) 125. William...
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    supposed lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a pioneering Hellenist and rather openly homosexual, visited...
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  • "the prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology," Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Winckelmann was a founder of scientific archaeology by first applying...
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    Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, early connoisseurs such as Johann Joachim Winckelmann passed it by in the royal Bourbon collection at Naples without...
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    Werner, Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 – 1817), geologist 34. Winckelmann, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717 – 1768), art historian and archaeologist 35. F.A...
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    the highest models. Thanks to the influence of art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, his work became a formative influence on Neoclassical painting...
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    Neoclassicism, which was born largely thanks to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, appears rather earlier in Germany than in France, with Anton...
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    inscriptions has come into play. The 18th-century art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann felt certain that, as sculptor of the Laocoön group, he was a...
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