"The rising sense of history would gradually transform the Roman marble quarry into a vast open-air museum where the unlearned touring public could discover the past. [...] The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology, herald of this ever-widening public significance, was Johann Joachim Winckelmann."
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Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers (New York: Random House, 1983) pp. 583–584
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1717 – 1768
deutscher Archäologe und Kunstschriftsteller
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