Bildnis Johann Joachim Winckelmann

1764

not on display
Angelika Kauffmann1741 Chur – 1807 Rom
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (Stendal 1717 - Trieste 1768) is considered the founder of German art science and archaeology. In 1763 he became prefect of the Vatican's collection of antiquities and scriptor of the Vatican Library. In 1755 he published 'Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture', in 1764 the 'History of Ancient Art', which contributed significantly to the enthusiasm for antiquity of that time. The opened book is based on an antique relief with the three Graces, which refers to Winckelmann's 1759 publication 'On Grace in Works of Art'. Winckelmann himself described the portrait as his best. Johann Heinrich Füssli, the subsequent chairman (see his youth portrait of Johann Rudolf Dälliker, inv. 467) stayed in Rome as a young man in 1763/64. He was in contact with Winckelmann and commissioned the painting. In the Kunsthaus is an old copy (inv. 331).
Also known as
Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann Portrait de Johanne Joachim Winckelmann
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 97 x 71 cm
Inventory number
98
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by Conrad Zeller, 1850