Amy C. Smith
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<b> <i>Oligarchia</i> </b> Revisited Open
Summary This article revisits an ostensibly important monument in Classical Attic historiography: the so-called Tomb of Critias, as preserved in a scholium note in Aeschines’ “Against Timarchus” (1.39). We survey prior scholarly positions …
Winckelmann’s Elegant Simplicity Open
This chapter considers how changing representational strategies in drawing the Greek vase from the middle of the eighteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries influenced the public perception of these objects and the commercializ…
Under the Greek sky: New approaches to Winckelmann’s reception and historiography (Introduction to a Journal of Art Historiography Special section) Open
A brief survey of the papers presented in the special section of the journal — Under the Greek sky: New approaches to Winckelmann’s reception and historiography
Winckelmann’s influence on the Neoclassical reception of Greek vases Open
While Johann Joachim’s Winckelmann influence on the Neoclassical taste for antiquities and its dissemination north of Italy is well known, it is rarely considered with regard to the study, acquisition, and use of ancient Greek vases. This …