{"id":21,"date":"2017-10-11T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/winckelmania\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:57:05","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/winckelmania\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Winckelmania at Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

As members of the International Winckelmann Committee, we are working in and out of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate the Winckelmann anniversaries 2017\u20132018, remembering the work of the Prussian art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717\u20131768) and his influence on the reception of the taste for classics in Europe. Like many antiquarians of his day, Winckelmann first encountered the classics through literary texts and Grand Tourist souvenirs. Once in Rome, where he rose to prominence at Prefect of Antiquities in the Vatican, Winckelmann studied the remains of Greek, Graeco-Roman and Roman art on a larger scale. Through personal contacts, letters and other writings, Winckelmann influenced his and subsequent generations of scholars, aesthetes, collectors, craftsmen and artists both within and beyond Italy.<\/p>\n