Nicholas Penny writes:

The Getty Research Institute publishes translations of key texts and documents in the history of art, among them a new translation of Winckelmann's Geschichte (it is the first English translation of the first edition) . . . 'It would be misleading,' [Alex Potts says in his introduction] to claim that Winckelmann's writing prefigured 'a potentially reactionary aestheticising of history'. He is more complicated than his admirers 'in the later German cult of things Greek' . . . Much that Potts writes here (and elsewhere) on Winckelmann's intellectual origins, his career as a writer, the sources of his ideas about environmental influence and about the superiority of Greek civilisation will be found very useful.

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