The Art Museum in the 19th Century. J. J. Winckelmann's Influence on the Establishing of the Classical Paradigm of the Art Museum

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Museum Studies, , language: English, abstract: The essay discusses the German philologist, archaeologist and historian J.J. Winckelmann’s theoretical influence on the conception of the Classical museum model as defined and established by the Louvre within the nineteenth-century in Paris. From its initiation, the Louvre would furnish an example for the Metrop...