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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (US: VINK-əl-mahn; German:; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.

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