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Born December 9, 1717 • Stendal • Germany
Died June 8, 1768 (aged 50) • Trieste • Italy
Subjects Of Study Neoclassical art • Greece • the arts

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Winckelmann, oil painting by Anton Raphael Mengs, 1758; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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