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− | '''Johann Joachim Winckelmann''' ( | + | {{Infobox artist |
+ | |image = Teichgraeber_HW_1839_JJ_Winckelmann.jpg | ||
+ | |imagesize = 250px | ||
+ | |caption = Lithography by Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber, 1839. | ||
+ | |birth_date = {{birth date|1717|12|9|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |birth_place = Stendal, Margraviate of Brandenburg | ||
+ | |death_date = {{Death date and age|1768|6|8|1717|12|9|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |death_place = Trieste | ||
+ | |web = [[Wikipedia::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann|Wikipedia]], [[Wikisource::http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann|Wikisource]], [[InternetArchive::http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Winckelmann%2C+Johann+Joachim%2C+1717-1768%22|Internet Archive]], [[OpenLibrary::http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL115685A/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann|Open Library]], [[Academia.edu::http://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann|Academia.edu]] | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | '''Johann Joachim Winckelmann''' (1717–1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. | ||
− | == | + | ==Bibliography== |
+ | [[Image:Winckelmann_JJ_Gedanken_ueber_die_Nachahmung_der_griechischen_Werke_1756.jpg|thumb|258px|''Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerey und Bildhauerkunst'', 2nd ed., 1756. [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1756 View].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Winckelmann_JJ_Geschichte_der_Kunst_des_Alterthums_1.jpg|thumb|258px|''Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 1'', 1764. [http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte01_1764?p=1 View].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Winckelmann_JJ_Geschichte_der_Kunst_des_Alterthums_2.jpg|thumb|258px|''Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, 2'', 1764. [http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte02_1764?p=1 View].]] | ||
(in German unless noted) | (in German unless noted) | ||
− | * '' | + | ===Works=== |
− | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/reflectionsonpai00winc Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art]'', trans. Henry Fuseli, London, 1765. (in English) | + | * ''Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerey und Bildhauerkunst'', 1755; [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1756 2nd ed.], Dresden and Leipzig: Walther, 1756; [http://archive.org/details/gedankenberdie00wincuoft repr.] Stuttgart: G.J. Goeschensche, 1885; Stuttgart: Reclam, 1986. First edition of only 50 copies. [http://archive.org/details/gedankenuberdie00winc] [http://google.com/books?id=4LM-AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover] |
− | ** ''Réflexions sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques dans la sculpture et la peinture'', trans. Marianne | + | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/reflectionsonpai00winc Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art]'', trans. Henry Fuseli, London: Millar, 1765; London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999. (in English) |
+ | ** ''Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture'', trans. Elfriede Heyer and Roger C. Norton, Open Court, 1986, 100 pages. (in English) [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1134364W] | ||
+ | ** ''Réflexions sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques dans la sculpture et la peinture'', trans. Marianne Charrière, Paris: Jacqueline Chambon, 1998, 157 pp. (in French) | ||
** ''Pensées sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques en peinture et en sculpture'', trans. Laure Cahen-Maurel, Paris: Allia, 2005. (in French) | ** ''Pensées sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques en peinture et en sculpture'', trans. Laure Cahen-Maurel, Paris: Allia, 2005. (in French) | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_descriptiond00winc Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch]'', Florence: Bonducci, 1760. (in French) | * ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_descriptiond00winc Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch]'', Florence: Bonducci, 1760. (in French) | ||
− | * ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1762a/0001/image?sid=976a9244df0ff82562c8b637910e1e14 Sendschreiben von den Herculanischen Entdeckungen]'', Dresden: Walther, 1762. [http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwincke00c2wi] [http://archive.org/stream/gri_johannwincke00winc] | + | * ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1762a/0001/image?sid=976a9244df0ff82562c8b637910e1e14 Sendschreiben von den Herculanischen Entdeckungen]'', Dresden: Walther, 1762. [http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwincke00c2wi] [http://archive.org/stream/gri_johannwincke00winc]. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to the Count von Brühl in Dresden. |
− | * ''[http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte01_1764?p=1 Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Band 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/johannwinckelman00winc], ''[http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte02_1764?p=1 Band 2]'', Dresden: Walther, 1764; repr. ''[http://archive.org/details/johannwinkelmann01winc Band 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwinkel01c2wi], ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwinkel02winc Band 2]'' [http://archive.org/details/johannwinkelmann02winc], Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776. | + | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/lettredemlabbewi00winciala Lettre de M. l'abbé Winckelmann, antiquaire de Sa Sainteté, a monsieur le comte de Brühl]'', Paris: Tilliard, 1764. (in French) |
+ | ** ''Critical Account of the Situation and Destruction by the First Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabia'', London, 1771. (in English) | ||
+ | * ''[http://archive.org/details/nachrichtenvonde00winc Nachrichten von den neuesten Herculanischen Entdeckungen]'', Dresden: Walther, 1764. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to J.H. Fuessli in Zürich. | ||
+ | ** ''Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum'', trans. Carrol C. Mattusch, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, 230 pp. First English translation. [http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-03-21.html Review], [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8850756&fileId=S0009840X12003241 Review]. | ||
+ | * ''[http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte01_1764?p=1 Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Band 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/johannwinckelman00winc], ''[http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/book/view/winckelmann_kunstgeschichte02_1764?p=1 Band 2]'', Dresden: Walther, 1764; repr. ''[http://archive.org/details/johannwinkelmann01winc Band 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwinkel01c2wi], ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwinkel02winc Band 2]'' [http://archive.org/details/johannwinkelmann02winc], Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776; [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10997444_00007.html repr.] Berlin: Heimann, 1870; Vienna: Phaidon, 1934; Berlin: Safari, 1942; Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964; Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993. | ||
** ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartch01winc Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartch02winc Tome 2]'', trans. Gottfried Sellius, Amsterdam: Harrevelt, 1766. (in French) | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartch01winc Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartch02winc Tome 2]'', trans. Gottfried Sellius, Amsterdam: Harrevelt, 1766. (in French) | ||
− | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde01winc Histoire de l'art de l'antiquité, Tome 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela01bwin], ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde03winc Tome 2]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela03awin], ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde02winc Tome 3]'' [ | + | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde01winc Histoire de l'art de l'antiquité, Tome 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela01bwin], ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde03winc Tome 2]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela03awin], ''[http://archive.org/details/histoiredelartde02winc Tome 3]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela02awin], trans. Michel Huber, Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1781; repr. as ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela0201wi Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela0202wi Tome 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela03winc Tome 3]'', trans. Michel Huber, Paris: Barrois & Savoye, 1789; rev. by Hendrik Jansen, ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela01winc T 1]'' [http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela01c2wi], ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela021win T 2]'', 1793; new ed., ''[http://archive.org/details/delartchezlesanc01winc T 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/delartchezlesanc02pt1winc T 2, Partie 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_histoiredela02winc T 2, Partie 2]'', Paris: Gide, 1801-03. (in French) |
− | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid01winc Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi, Tomo 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid02winc Tomo 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid03winc Tomo 3]'', Rome: Pagliarini, 1783. (in Italian) | + | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid01winc Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi, Tomo 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid02winc Tomo 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/storiadelleartid03winc Tomo 3]'', trans. Carlo Fea, Rome: Pagliarini, 1783-84. (in Italian) |
− | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/ancientartgreeks00winc The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks]'', trans. G. Henry Lodge, London: John Chapman, 1850. Translation of | + | ** ''[http://archive.org/details/ancientartgreeks00winc The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks]'' [Vol. 2], trans. G. Henry Lodge, London: John Chapman, 1850. Translation of both volumes as ''[http://archive.org/details/historyancienta01lodggoog The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/historyancienta02lodggoog Vol. 2]'', trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James. R. Osgood, 1872-73, with an essay "Life of Winckelmann". (in English) |
+ | ** ''[[Media:Winckelmann_JJ_Dejiny_umeni_staroveku_Stati.pdf|Dějiny umění starověku. Stati]]'', trans. Jiří Stromšík, Prague: Odeon, 1986, 441 pp. (in Czech) | ||
** ''Storia dell'arte nell'antichità'', trans. Maria Ludovica Pampaloni, Milano: SE, 1990. (in Italian) | ** ''Storia dell'arte nell'antichità'', trans. Maria Ludovica Pampaloni, Milano: SE, 1990. (in Italian) | ||
− | ** ''Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité'', trans. Dominique Tassel, Livre de Poche, 2005. (in French) | + | ** ''Historia del arte en la antiguedad'', Iberia, 2000; Folio, 2003. (in Spanish) |
− | * ''Versuch einer Allegorie'', 1766. | + | ** ''Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité'', trans. Dominique Tassel, Livre de Poche, 2005, 873 pp. (in French) |
+ | ** ''History of the Art of Antiquity'', trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, 446 pp. (in English) [http://www.scribd.com/doc/88969881] | ||
+ | * ''Versuch einer Allegorie, besonders für die Kunst'', Dresden, 1766; [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs2/object/display/bsb10522662_00007.html repr.], ed. Albert Dressel, Dresden: Mendelssohn, 1866. [http://google.com/books?id=wYdFAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover] | ||
** ''Saggio sull'allegoria, specialmente per l'arte'', ed. Elena Agazzi, Bologna: Minerva, 2004. (in Italian) | ** ''Saggio sull'allegoria, specialmente per l'arte'', ed. Elena Agazzi, Bologna: Minerva, 2004. (in Italian) | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/anmerkungenuber00winc Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten]'', Dresden: Walther, 1767. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/anmerkungenuber00winc Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten]'', Dresden: Walther, 1767. | ||
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** ''Des réflexions sur le sentiment du beau dans les ouvrages de l’art et sur les moyens de l’acquérir'', 1786. (in French) | ** ''Des réflexions sur le sentiment du beau dans les ouvrages de l’art et sur les moyens de l’acquérir'', 1786. (in French) | ||
− | + | ===Correspondence=== | |
− | * ''[http://archive.org/details/ | + | * ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_johannwinkel00winc Briefe an Herrn H.]'', Leipzig: Carl Friederich Schneidern, 1776. |
− | * ''[http:// | + | * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082398599 Briefe an seine Freunde]'', 2 Vols, Dresden: Walther, 1777-80. |
* ''[http://archive.org/details/briefeseinefreun00winc Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz]'', Zürich: Orell, Gessner und Füesslin, 1778. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/briefeseinefreun00winc Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz]'', Zürich: Orell, Gessner und Füesslin, 1778. | ||
− | * ''[http://archive.org/details/lettresfamiliere01winc Lettres familières, Partie 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/lettresfamiliere02winc Partie 2]'', Paris: Couturier, 1781; repr. ''[ | + | * ''[http://google.com/books?id=YNoFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover Briefe an Einen seiner vertrautesten Freunde in den Jahren 1756 bis 1768, Band 1]'', ''Band 2'', Berlin and Stettin, 1781. |
+ | * ''[http://archive.org/details/lettresfamiliere01winc Lettres familières, Partie 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/lettresfamiliere02winc Partie 2]'', Paris: Couturier, 1781; repr. ''[http://archive.org/details/familieresdemwin01winc Tome 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/familieresdemwin02winc Tome 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/familieresdemwin03winc Tome 3]'', Yverdon, 1784. (in French) | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_winkelmannun00tubi Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen]'', ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_winkelmannun00tubi Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen]'', ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805. | ||
+ | * ''Briefe an seine Züricher Freunde'', Freiburg and Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1882. | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/ausjohjacwinckel01wincuoft Briefen, Bd. 1]'', ed. Richard Meszlényi, Berlin: B. Behr, 1913. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/ausjohjacwinckel01wincuoft Briefen, Bd. 1]'', ed. Richard Meszlényi, Berlin: B. Behr, 1913. | ||
+ | * ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1925bd2 Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 2: Ausgewählte Briefe]'', ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925. | ||
* ''Briefe'', 4 Vols, eds. Walther Rehm and Hans Diepolder, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1952-57. | * ''Briefe'', 4 Vols, eds. Walther Rehm and Hans Diepolder, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1952-57. | ||
− | + | ===Collected writings=== | |
* ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_winkelmannun00tubi Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen]'', ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/gri_winkelmannun00tubi Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen]'', ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805. | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswerk01winc Werke, Bd. 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswerk02winc Bd. 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer02wincgoog Bd. 3]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer03wincgoog Bd. 4]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer01wincgoog Bd. 5]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer01unkngoog Bd. 6]'', ''Bd. 7'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer00wincgoog Bd. 8]'', ed. C.L. Fernow, Dresden: Walther, 1808-20. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswerk01winc Werke, Bd. 1]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswerk02winc Bd. 2]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer02wincgoog Bd. 3]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer03wincgoog Bd. 4]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer01wincgoog Bd. 5]'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer01unkngoog Bd. 6]'', ''Bd. 7'', ''[http://archive.org/details/winckelmannswer00wincgoog Bd. 8]'', ed. C.L. Fernow, Dresden: Walther, 1808-20. | ||
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* ''[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann#Opera_omnia Opere di G. G. Winckelmann]'', 12 Vols, Prato: Per i Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34. (in Italian) | * ''[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann#Opera_omnia Opere di G. G. Winckelmann]'', 12 Vols, Prato: Per i Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34. (in Italian) | ||
* ''[http://archive.org/details/ausgewhlteschrif01winc Ausgewählte Schriften]'', Leipzig: Insel, 1920. | * ''[http://archive.org/details/ausgewhlteschrif01winc Ausgewählte Schriften]'', Leipzig: Insel, 1920. | ||
+ | * ''[http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/winckelmann1925bd1 Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 1: Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums]'', ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925. | ||
* ''Il bello nell'arte. Scritti sull'arte antica'', ed. Federico Pfister, Torino: G. Einaudi, 1942. (in Italian) | * ''Il bello nell'arte. Scritti sull'arte antica'', ed. Federico Pfister, Torino: G. Einaudi, 1942. (in Italian) | ||
− | * ''Kleine Schriften, Vorreden, Entwürfe'', | + | * ''Kleine Schriften, Vorreden, Entwürfe'', ed. Walther Rehm, Weimar: Böhlau, 1960; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968; 2002. |
* ''Selected Writings on Art'', ed. David Irwin, London: Phaidon, 1972. (in English) | * ''Selected Writings on Art'', ed. David Irwin, London: Phaidon, 1972. (in English) | ||
− | * ''Unbekannte Schriften'', ed. S. von Moisy, H. Stichtermann and L. Tavernier, Munich: Bayerischen Akademie, 1987. | + | * ''Werke'', ed. Helmut Holtzhauer, Berlin: Aufbau, 3rd ed., 1982, 382 pp. |
− | * ''Schriften und Nachlaß'', | + | * ''Unbekannte Schriften'', ed. S. von Moisy, H. Stichtermann and L. Tavernier, Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987. |
+ | * ''Schriften und Nachlaß'', 7 Vols, eds. Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunzeed, et al., Mainz: Zabern, 1996 ff. | ||
+ | * ''Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts'', Adamant Media, 2001, 306 pp. (in French) | ||
+ | * ''Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World: Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian'', ed. Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, 2010, 176 pp. (in English) | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
− | * | + | * http://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=au:%22Winckelmann%2C%20Johann%20Joachim%22 |
− | * [http:// | + | * http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autor/646 |
− | * | + | * [http://www.winckelmann-gesellschaft.com Winckelmann Museum], Stendal. |
+ | * [http://winckelmann-institut.hu-berlin.de Winckelmann-Instituts der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin] | ||
+ | * http://www.egs.edu/library/johann-joachim-winckelmann/biography/ |
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December 9, 1717 Stendal, Margraviate of Brandenburg |
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June 8, 1768 Trieste | (aged 50)
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.
Bibliography
(in German unless noted)
Works
- Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerey und Bildhauerkunst, 1755; 2nd ed., Dresden and Leipzig: Walther, 1756; repr. Stuttgart: G.J. Goeschensche, 1885; Stuttgart: Reclam, 1986. First edition of only 50 copies. [1] [2]
- Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks: with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art, trans. Henry Fuseli, London: Millar, 1765; London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999. (in English)
- Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture, trans. Elfriede Heyer and Roger C. Norton, Open Court, 1986, 100 pages. (in English) [3]
- Réflexions sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques dans la sculpture et la peinture, trans. Marianne Charrière, Paris: Jacqueline Chambon, 1998, 157 pp. (in French)
- Pensées sur l'imitation des œuvres grecques en peinture et en sculpture, trans. Laure Cahen-Maurel, Paris: Allia, 2005. (in French)
- Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch, Florence: Bonducci, 1760. (in French)
- Sendschreiben von den Herculanischen Entdeckungen, Dresden: Walther, 1762. [4] [5]. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to the Count von Brühl in Dresden.
- Lettre de M. l'abbé Winckelmann, antiquaire de Sa Sainteté, a monsieur le comte de Brühl, Paris: Tilliard, 1764. (in French)
- Critical Account of the Situation and Destruction by the First Eruptions of Mount Vesuvius of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabia, London, 1771. (in English)
- Nachrichten von den neuesten Herculanischen Entdeckungen, Dresden: Walther, 1764. Report from the excavations in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii written in the form of a long letter to J.H. Fuessli in Zürich.
- Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Band 1 [6], Band 2, Dresden: Walther, 1764; repr. Band 1 [7], Band 2 [8], Vienna: Akademischen Verlag, 1776; repr. Berlin: Heimann, 1870; Vienna: Phaidon, 1934; Berlin: Safari, 1942; Weimar: H. Böhlaus, 1964; Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1993.
- Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1, Tome 2, trans. Gottfried Sellius, Amsterdam: Harrevelt, 1766. (in French)
- Histoire de l'art de l'antiquité, Tome 1 [9], Tome 2 [10], Tome 3 [11], trans. Michel Huber, Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1781; repr. as Histoire de l'art chez les Anciens, Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, trans. Michel Huber, Paris: Barrois & Savoye, 1789; rev. by Hendrik Jansen, T 1 [12], T 2, 1793; new ed., T 1, T 2, Partie 1, T 2, Partie 2, Paris: Gide, 1801-03. (in French)
- Storia delle arti del disegno presso gli antichi, Tomo 1, Tomo 2, Tomo 3, trans. Carlo Fea, Rome: Pagliarini, 1783-84. (in Italian)
- The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks [Vol. 2], trans. G. Henry Lodge, London: John Chapman, 1850. Translation of both volumes as The History of the Ancient Art, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, trans. G. Henry Lodge, Boston: James. R. Osgood, 1872-73, with an essay "Life of Winckelmann". (in English)
- Dějiny umění starověku. Stati, trans. Jiří Stromšík, Prague: Odeon, 1986, 441 pp. (in Czech)
- Storia dell'arte nell'antichità, trans. Maria Ludovica Pampaloni, Milano: SE, 1990. (in Italian)
- Historia del arte en la antiguedad, Iberia, 2000; Folio, 2003. (in Spanish)
- Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité, trans. Dominique Tassel, Livre de Poche, 2005, 873 pp. (in French)
- History of the Art of Antiquity, trans. Harry Mallgrave, Getty Research Institute, 2006, 446 pp. (in English) [13]
- Versuch einer Allegorie, besonders für die Kunst, Dresden, 1766; repr., ed. Albert Dressel, Dresden: Mendelssohn, 1866. [14]
- Saggio sull'allegoria, specialmente per l'arte, ed. Elena Agazzi, Bologna: Minerva, 2004. (in Italian)
- Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten, Dresden: Walther, 1767.
- Remarques sur l'architecture des anciens, trans. Hendrik Jansen, Paris: Barrois, 1783. (in French)
- Monumenti antichi inediti spiegati ed illustrati da Giovanni Winckelmann prefetto delle antichità di Roma, Vol 1, Vol 2, Rome, self-published, 1767; 2nd ed., Tomo 1, Tomo 2, 1821. (in Italian)
- Monumens inédits de l'antiquité statues, peintures antiques, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs de marbre et de terre cuite, Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, trans. A.-F. Désodoards, Paris: L. Paravicin, 1808. (in French)
- Alte Denkmäler der Kunst, trans. Friedrich Leopold Brunn, Berlin: Christian Gottfried Schöne, 1780; 2nd ed., Band 1, Band 2, 1791-92; Berlin: Schöne, 1804.
- Abhandlung von der Fähigkeit der Empfindung des Schönen in der Kunst und dem Unterrichte in derselben, 1769.
- Des réflexions sur le sentiment du beau dans les ouvrages de l’art et sur les moyens de l’acquérir, 1786. (in French)
Correspondence
- Briefe an Herrn H., Leipzig: Carl Friederich Schneidern, 1776.
- Briefe an seine Freunde, 2 Vols, Dresden: Walther, 1777-80.
- Briefe an seine Freunde in der Schweiz, Zürich: Orell, Gessner und Füesslin, 1778.
- Briefe an Einen seiner vertrautesten Freunde in den Jahren 1756 bis 1768, Band 1, Band 2, Berlin and Stettin, 1781.
- Lettres familières, Partie 1, Partie 2, Paris: Couturier, 1781; repr. Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3, Yverdon, 1784. (in French)
- Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen, ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
- Briefe an seine Züricher Freunde, Freiburg and Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1882.
- Briefen, Bd. 1, ed. Richard Meszlényi, Berlin: B. Behr, 1913.
- Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 2: Ausgewählte Briefe, ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925.
- Briefe, 4 Vols, eds. Walther Rehm and Hans Diepolder, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1952-57.
Collected writings
- Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert: In Briefen und Aufsätzen, ed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Tübingen: J.G. Cotta, 1805.
- Werke, Bd. 1, Bd. 2, Bd. 3, Bd. 4, Bd. 5, Bd. 6, Bd. 7, Bd. 8, ed. C.L. Fernow, Dresden: Walther, 1808-20.
- Johann Winckelmanns sämtliche Werke: dabei Porträt, Facsimile und ausführliche Biographie des Autors; unter dem Texte die frühern und viele neue Citate und Noten; die allerwärts gesammelten Briefe nach der Zeitordnung, Fragmente, Abbildungen und vierfacher Index, 12 Vols, ed. Joseph Eiselein, Donaueschingen: Deutscher Classiker, 1825-29; repr. Osnabrück, 1965.
- Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, 12 Vols, Prato: Per i Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34. (in Italian)
- Ausgewählte Schriften, Leipzig: Insel, 1920.
- Winckelmanns kleine Schriften und Briefe, Bd. 1: Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums, ed. Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Leipzig: Insel, 1925.
- Il bello nell'arte. Scritti sull'arte antica, ed. Federico Pfister, Torino: G. Einaudi, 1942. (in Italian)
- Kleine Schriften, Vorreden, Entwürfe, ed. Walther Rehm, Weimar: Böhlau, 1960; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968; 2002.
- Selected Writings on Art, ed. David Irwin, London: Phaidon, 1972. (in English)
- Werke, ed. Helmut Holtzhauer, Berlin: Aufbau, 3rd ed., 1982, 382 pp.
- Unbekannte Schriften, ed. S. von Moisy, H. Stichtermann and L. Tavernier, Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987.
- Schriften und Nachlaß, 7 Vols, eds. Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunzeed, et al., Mainz: Zabern, 1996 ff.
- Recueil de différentes pièces sur les arts, Adamant Media, 2001, 306 pp. (in French)
- Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World: Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian, ed. Stanley Appelbaum, Dover Publications, 2010, 176 pp. (in English)