German Essays on Art History: Winckelmann, Burckhardt, Panofsky, and Others

Introduction: Gert Schiff

JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
On the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks
Translated by Henry Fuseli

WILHELM HEINSE
Further Description of Several Paintings in the Dusseldort Gallery
Translated by Peter Wortsman

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
On German Architecture
Translated by John Gage
Observations on the Laocoon
Translator unknown

WILHELM HEINRICH WACKENRODER
Memorial to Our Worthy Ancestor Albrecht Durer
Translated by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt

FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL
From Descriptions of Paintings from Paris and the Netherlands in the Years 1802 to 1804
Translated by Peter Wortsman and Gert Schiff

CARL FRIEDRICH VON RUMOHR
On Giotto
Translated by Peter Wortsman

EDUARD KOLLOFF
Rembrandt's Coloring and His Color Technique
Translated by Peter Wortsman

JACOB BURCKHARDT
On Murillo
Translated by Gert Schiff

HEINRICH WOLFFLIN
The Classical Triumphal Arches in Italy
Translated by Peter Wortsman

THEODOR HETZER
The Creative Union of Classical and Northern Elements in the High Renaissance
Translated by Peter Wortsman

FRANZ WICKHOFF
On the Historical Unity in the Universal Evolution of Art
Translated by Peter Wortsman

ALOIS RIEGEL
Late Roman or Oriental?
Translated by Peter Wortsman

MAX DVORAK
On El Greco and Mannerism
Translated by John Hardy

JULIUS VON SCHLOSSER
On the History of Art Historiography -- "The Gothic"
Translated by Peter Wortsman

ABY WARBURG
Italian Art and International Astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara
Translated by Peter Wortsman

ERWIN PANOFSKY
Eros Bound: Concerning hte Genealogy of Rembrandt's Danae
Translated by Peter Wortsman

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