Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Deutsches Haus at NYU, the NYU Department of German, and the Department of History at NYU present the conference "Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Transalpine Fantasy of Modern Paganism." This conference, anticipating the 300th anniversary of Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s birth in 2017, seeks to reframe, reassess, and generally defamiliarize the antiquarian and historian who wrote the script of obsessive German philhellenism. Goethe, awed by…