Question

Who was the 18th century art historian and archaeologist whose ideas shaped and defined the neoclassicism movement by championing Greek art as the ultimate aesthetic ideal for emulation and imitation, and calling for images showing "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur"?

		Giorgio Vasari
		Johann Joachim Winkelmann
		Immanuel Kant
		Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 1

Who was the 18th century art historian and archeologist whose ideas shaped and defined the neoclassicism movement by championing Greek art as the ultimate aesthetic ideal for emulation and imitation, and calling for images, showing “ noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”?

Answer: Johann Joachim Winkelmann.

Johann Winkelmann was born in the year 1717, and was the founder of modern archeology, neoclassicism and an art historian. Neoclassicism was the cultural movement which focused and emphasised on the Roman and Greek art. Neoclassicism focused on the cultural aspect of drawing, paintings, music, architecture and was also known as the enlightenment period in the eighteenth century. He was also known for the his work of art in Antiquity. Another notable works of Johann Joachim Winkelmann were reflections supporting Greek aesthetics with his notable quote “ noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”.
Rousseau was a philosopher who did notable work in education, politics and writing. Immanuel Kant was an influential western philosopher and Giorgio Vasari was an Italian historian and architect in the fifteenth century.