Word: winckelmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable success story in itself, but the happiest part of it was West's relationship to his students. When he settled in London after completing his studies in Rome, the art world was turning back to antiquity. The Allentown show includes samples of the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, for it was he who gave the movement its rallying cry: "There is but one way for the moderns to become great, and perhaps unequaled; I mean, by imitating the ancients." In his early years, West took his themes largely from mythology and, like the Greeks, sought not only...
...From "Winckelmann," an essay on the German art historian and archaeologist. -Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield...