ALEX POTTS is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art and chair of the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. HARRY FRANCIS MALLGRAVE is an architectural historian and the translator of several other volumes in the Research Institute's Texts & Documents series.
"Mallgrave's fluent and perceptive translation of Winckelmann's
History establishes a most worthy alternative [to Henry Lodge's
mid-19th-century version], especially when coupled with Alex
Potts's excellent, informative introduction to this seminal work.
[This] volume is a must for all those interested in the evolution
of art history as a humanistic discipline."-- "Choice" (6/1/2006
12:00:00 AM)
"Much that Potts writes here...on Winckelmann's intellectual
origins, his career as a writer, the sources of his ideas about
environmental influence and about the superiority of Greek
civilization will be found very useful."-- "London Review of Books"
(1/4/2007 12:00:00 AM)
"That a new edition of Winckelmann's long-since classic main work
reminds...[his] art fantasies deserves respect."-- "Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung" (6/21/2006 12:00:00 AM)
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