The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: Elgin

added too freely

8 June 2014, around 11.41.

In his ‘History of Ancient Art,’ of which the first edition appeared in 1764, Winckelmann gave to the study of the antique an impulse along a line which it has never wholly deserted; his theory of the ‘beautiful’ as manifested even in these Græco-Roman copies to which his imagination often added too freely the missing […]

ego hoc feci mm–MMXXIV · cc 2000–2024 M.F.C.

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