Preliminary Report on Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients
from On Architecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
Summary
I owe the public an explanation concerning the History of the Art and Especially the Sculpture of Ancient Peoples, Primarily of the Greeks, which I announced several years ago. I could have brought it out at that time, but it will be more useful to me and to the reader that this did not happen. For when I took over the Description of the Deeply Incised Stones in the Stoss Museum in Florence, I had to become involved again with many investigations that I had previously not carried out with the same attentiveness. This work, which was composed in French, was printed in Florence, but the preface and index were printed in Rome, and without these two parts it is six hundred pages thick. As I reviewed my history again after completion of this work, I found it to be inadequate, partly as regards essentials, and partly with regard to certain pieces of evidence. And considering this I decided to organize the whole text according to a different system. I had more drawings made for the necessary copperplate prints, which are gradually being engraved. And these are the reasons for the delay.
The present Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients developed during the investigations I have made over more than five years, while I have been living in Rome and other cities of Italy, into everything concerning the arts.
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- Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology , pp. 183 - 188Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013