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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 268909

Idols and museum pieces
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126538
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128196
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128595
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128994
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132488
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  alternate name: Sculpture--Exhibitions--History
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Museums--Curatorship
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  alternate name: Idols and images
abstract: The publication of Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums in 1764 is considered as the defining moment in the genesis of the modern, scientific study of sculpture. It was a formalist and secular history, concentrating on the statue as a work of art, and studying sculpture in a museum setting, abstracting from its original religious, social or political functions. Other 17th- and 18th-century authors tried to understand those functions and why statues so often excited violent reactions ranging from adoration to abuse. The collection of essays aims to be a first investigation of the questions that arise out of an awareness that the origins of the Western historiography are much more complex than may appear from the perspective of Winckelmann's vision of the Graeco-Roman tradition.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31031849
language: eng
language: fre
is part of: Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ;
position: Band 17
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: 10 English, 3 French contributions.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301268909
type: CreativeWork