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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\"\"Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-Century Gentleman’s Library<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>explores J.J. Winckelmann’s influence on the arts in Europe, especially in Britain, through printed media, architecture and decorative arts. This exhibition, curated by Dr Katherine Harloe, Professor Amy Smith and Dr Cristina Neagu, welcomed visitors weekdays 29 June through 30 November 2018. A film\u2014 Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-century Gentleman’s Library<\/em><\/a>\u2014 produced by the University of Reading, introduces this project and its outputs. And you can purchase the exhibition catalogue, with the handlist of the exhibition and essays, at the University of Reading Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was launched with a symposium on\u00a0Ideals and Nations: New perspectives on the European reception of Winckelmann\u2019s aesthetics<\/i>, on 29 June 2018, organised by Dr Fiona Gatty and Lucy Russell (Oxford). It was the last of the triplet of worskshops on the theme\u00a0Under the Greek Sky: Taste and the Reception of Classical art from Winckelmann to the present<\/em>. Keynote speakers at the Oxford workshop were Professor Elisabeth D\u00e9cultot (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Professor Alex Potts (University of Michigan). Some of these papers are published in Under the Greek sky: New approaches to Winckelmann\u2019s reception and historiography<\/em><\/a>, a special section of the Journal of Art Historiography<\/em><\/a> vol. 25, edited by Fiona Gatty (Oxford) and Amy C. Smith, which is available via open access online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The online exhibition was launched with a talk by Professor Amy C. Smith (University of Reading) on Drawing and Winckelmann\u2019s taste for elegant simplicity<\/em> on 20th November 2018 at 5:15pm in the Upper Library at Christ Church.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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