The only way for us to become great, and, if indeed it is possible, inimitable, is through the imitation of the ancients...
Der einzige Weg für uns, groß, ja, wenn es möglich ist, unnachahmlich zu werden, ist die Nachahmung der Alten...
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Path to Greatness
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), "Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture," tr. David Carter, Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (Rochester: Camden House, 2013), pp. 31-55 (at 32):