‘Winckelmann in Poland: An Eighteenth-Century Response to the “History of the Art of Antiquity”’

The art historical writings of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki (1755-1821) are little-known outside of Poland. Potocki intended, On the Art of the Ancients, or the Polish Winckelmann (O Sztuce u Dawnych, czyli Winkelman Polski, 1815) to be a history of world art that used Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s syste...

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Main Author:	Carolyn C. Guile
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2013-12-01
Series:	Journal of Art Historiography
Subjects:	Stanisław Kostka Potocki Johann Joachim Winckelmann Poland Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth antiquarianism art historiography Eighteenth-century art theory
Online Access:	http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/guile.pdf

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spelling	doaj-7c7553b976064848b41a93338519b6302020-11-24T23:12:58ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522013-12-0199CCG1‘Winckelmann in Poland: An Eighteenth-Century Response to the “History of the Art of Antiquity”’Carolyn C. GuileThe art historical writings of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki (1755-1821) are little-known outside of Poland. Potocki intended, On the Art of the Ancients, or the Polish Winckelmann (O Sztuce u Dawnych, czyli Winkelman Polski, 1815) to be a history of world art that used Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s system of analysis as its point of reference. The importance for art historiography of Potocki’s project resides in the presentation of Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (1764) for a Polish readership, in his consideration of cultures Winckelmann had not discussed and in his defense of Winckelmann’s approach against Christian Gottlob Heyne’s critique. Written when art history was a discipline in formation, Potocki’s text gave Winckelmann’s project an ‘afterlife’ in the eastern borderlands of Europe.http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/guile.pdfStanisław Kostka PotockiJohann Joachim WinckelmannPolandPolish-Lithuanian Commonwealthantiquarianismart historiographyEighteenth-century art theory
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title	‘Winckelmann in Poland: An Eighteenth-Century Response to the “History of the Art of Antiquity”’
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series	Journal of Art Historiography
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description	The art historical writings of Stanislaw Kostka Potocki (1755-1821) are little-known outside of Poland. Potocki intended, On the Art of the Ancients, or the Polish Winckelmann (O Sztuce u Dawnych, czyli Winkelman Polski, 1815) to be a history of world art that used Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s system of analysis as its point of reference. The importance for art historiography of Potocki’s project resides in the presentation of Winckelmann’s Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (1764) for a Polish readership, in his consideration of cultures Winckelmann had not discussed and in his defense of Winckelmann’s approach against Christian Gottlob Heyne’s critique. Written when art history was a discipline in formation, Potocki’s text gave Winckelmann’s project an ‘afterlife’ in the eastern borderlands of Europe.
topic	Stanisław Kostka Potocki Johann Joachim Winckelmann Poland Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth antiquarianism art historiography Eighteenth-century art theory
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