WINCKELMANN, Johann Joachim.

Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malery und Bilderhauerkunst. Zweyte vermehrte Auflage. (With:) Sendschreiben über die Gedanken von der Nachahmung der griechischen Werke ... (With:) Erläuterung der Gedanken von der Nachahmung der griechischen Werke ...

Dresden and Leipzig, Waltherische Handlung, 1756. (Bound with:)WINCKELMANN, Johann Joachim. Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten. Leipzig, Johann Gottfried Dyck, 1762. 2 works bound in 1 vol., 4to, pp. [8], 172, with large engraved vignettes (all different) on the three section titles and large engraved text illustration at head of dedication; pp. [16], 68, [8], with engraved vignette on title and last leaf; some light spotting and toning, less pronounced than usual; a very good copy in contemporary calf, richly gilt spine with citron label, top of spine repaired, blue edges. From the library of Georg Ludwig II, Count of Erbach with his contemporary engraved bookplate inside front cover; from the library of the architectural historian Eberhard Hempel with his small circular library stamp on front fly-leaf. I: Second and only procurable edition of Winckelmann's first book which laid the foundations for his fame as purveyor of Greek classical art. The work was originally published in 1755 in an edition of only 50 copies, of which only 1 copy is extant (Dresden). For this second edition Wickelmann added two further parts; one an anonymously (but written by Wickelmann himself) published attack on the Gedanken, the second a rebuttal of the critique. The 1755 edition was dedicated to Winckelmann's patron Friedrich August of Saxony who promptly granted the author an annual pension, which enabled him to move to Rome. - Vinet 1254.II: First edition of Winckelmann's account of his visit to Paestum and the impression the grandiose ruins had on him. This is one of the few architectural studies by Winckelmann and one of the earliest writings about Paestum. 'He considered that Greek architecture developed from the essentials exemplified at, for instance, Paestum, and progressed to its highest position of a combination of essentials and ornament at Athens, while it was later degraded by the Romans, who were interested only in ornaments, as at Palmyra and Balbec' (D. Wiebenson, Sources of Greek Revival Architecture, p. 51). - Borroni 10676.

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