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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fatsea, Irene
• Voutsaki, Sofia
• Cartledge, Paul

Titel

The reception of J.J. Winckelmann by Greek scholarship during the formative stage of the Modern Greek state (1832–1862)

Ist Teil von

• Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities, 2017, p.62-76

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter explores attitudes in Greek scholarship toward Winckelmann's theory of Greek art drawing on the few direct or indirect references to him during the first decades of the Modern Greek state. It explores that three authors originating in vastly differing fields, namely: Konstantinos Mavroyannis, a medical doctor, who wrote a manual on the climate and medical chorography of Athens; Ludwig Ross, an archaeologist who wrote a manual on the archaeology of the arts; and Stephanos Koumanoudis, a philologist with a particular interest in archaeology, who wrote a 'pamphlet' on the prospects of Greek art. The Viconian notion of 'poetic wisdom', mainly to be found in art, language and rituals, is of relevance here in this attempt to account for intuitive responses to the environment. Mavroyannis regarded folk rituals both as the means of a people's cultural expression and as the occasion for the creative transformation of established traditions.