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Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks; With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art

Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks; With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim

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ISBN10: 1458845567
ISBN13: 9781458845566
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1767. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... A N ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING LETTER, AND A Further Explication os the Subject. ICOULD not presume that so small a treatise as mine would be thought of consequence enough to be brought to a publick trial. As it was written only for a few connoisseurs, it seemed superfluous to give it a learned air, by multiplying quotations. Artists want but hints: their task, according to an ancient Rhetor, is to perform, not to peruse; consequently every author, L who who writes for therri, ought to be brief. Being besides convinced, that the beauties of the art are founded rather on a quick fense, and refined taste, than on profound meditation, I cannot help thinking that the principle of Neoptolemusa, to philosophize only with the few, ought to be the chief consideration in every treatise of this kind. Several passages of my Essay are susceptible of explications, and, having been publicity tried by an anonymous author, should be explained and defended at the same time, if my circumstances would permit me to enlarge b- As to his other remarks, the author, I hope, will guess at my answer, without my giving one explicitly.--Indeed they do not require any. I am not in the least moved by the clamours concerning those pieces of Corregio, which, by undoubted accounts, were not * Cicero de Oratore, L. II. c. 37. b The author was then preparing for a journey to Rome. only only brought to Sweden but even hung. up in the stables at Stockholm. Reasoning is of no use here: arguments of this kind admit of no other evidence but that of AEmilius Scaurus against Valerius of Sucro: He denies; I affirm: Romans! 'tis yours to judge. And why should there be any thing more derogatory to the honour of the Swedes, in my repeating Count Tejfiris relation, than in his giving it ? Perhaps, b..

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