Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 255
lmann to beworks of the Greekdecadence. On the other hand,the taste of the eigh-teenth and seventeenthcenturies for exagger-ated, ostentatious, andtheatrical art had en-tirely overlooked thevirtues of repose andsimplicity in the workswhich Winckelmann now proved to be simply Romancopies of lost… … Fig. 160.—Ganymede, by Thonvaldsen.Copenhagen. The Greek Revival of the Eighteenth Century. 247 These points were first made known to the world InWinckelmanns History of Art, pubhshed in 1764. Theeffect of this publication was electrical. In proving theRoman statues to be copies of Greek originals…
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