Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Joachim Winckelmann

Gedanken über die Nachahmung griechischer Werke* or *Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums*

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

InferredFuller describes the Villa Albani as "the home of Winckelmann" and "the best expression of the ideal of modern Rome," echoing Winckelmann's classical aesthetic theory.

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Documented 1849

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“the villa of Albani, home of Winkelmann, and the best expression of the ideal of modern Rome”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller describes the Villa Albani as "the home of Winckelmann" and "the best expression of the ideal of modern Rome," echoing Winckelmann's classical aesthetic theory.