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en-wikipedia-org-3739		Johann Joachim Winckelmann - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4862	524	63	In 1760, Winckelmann's Description des pierres gravées du feu Baron de Stosch [Description of incised gems of the late Baron of Stosch] appeared, followed in 1762 by his Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten ("Observations on the Architecture of the Ancients"), which included an account of the temples at Paestum.[12] In 1758 and 1762, he visited Naples to observe the archaeological excavations being conducted at Pompeii and Herculaneum.[20] "Despite his association with Albani, Winckelmann steered clear of the shady world of art dealing which had compromised the scholarly respectability of such brilliant, if much less systematic antiquarians as Francesco Ficoroni and the Baron Stosch."[21] Winckelmann's poverty may have played a part: the trade in antiquities was an expensive and speculative game. Winckelmann's masterpiece, the Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("The History of Art in Antiquity"), published in 1764, was soon recognized as a permanent contribution to European literature. The father of official art history was a German named Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–68). ^ Winckelmann, Johann Joachim (1873) History of ancient art.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3739.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3739.txt