Winckelmann and the never ending

Abstract

The text aim is to demonstrate the major role of Winckelmann in the history of the ways of the modern comprehension of art and antiquity. The operations assumed by Winckelmann, in an aesthetical sense and also in a historical sense, brought up a lot of aspects that had marked both new disciplines: aesthetics and history of art in its firsts moves. The endless is a pointed out as the way of operating as in the ways of the reception of his works.