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Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with Instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art (1765)

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768, Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768. Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst. English. 1765 · London, Printed for the translator, and sold by A. Millar · leaf 13

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O F T H E Painting and Sculpture of the GREEKS. I. Nature. TO the Greek climate we owe the production of Taste, and from thence it fpread at length over all the politer world. Every invention, communicated by foreigners to that nation, was but the feed of what it became afterwards, changing B both

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