ABSTRACT Over the 250 years since his death, Winckelmann’s posthumously published ’private’ correspondence has shaped understandings of his life and work just as much as his aesthetic and antiquarian writings. While editions appeared as early as the 1770s, the publication of Goethe’s Winkelmann und sein Jahrhundert and the inclusion of two volumes of ’freundschaftliche Briefe’ within Josef Eiselein’s Sämtliche Werke (1825-) marked a new role for the correspondence in the nineteenth-century monumentalising of Winckelmann as a German ’classic’. We suggest that this tradition has generated a distanced, even voyeuristic, perspective on the letters, treating them as windows onto biographical scenes of emotional, and sometimes erotic, intimacy and expression. We criticise some examples of this tendency in recent Winckelmann scholarship, explore the often adventitious steps by which it arose, and, using examples of particular letters, suggest some alternative interpretations.

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生活和（情书）信件：温克尔曼的来信

摘要温克尔曼（Winckelmann）逝世250年来，他死后出版的“私人”书信不仅对他的生活和工作产生了深刻的影响，而且对他的美学和古玩著作也产生了影响。虽然版本最早出现在1770年代，但歌德的《温克尔曼与塞恩·贾赫德汉德》的出版以及约瑟夫·埃塞莱因的《SämtlicheWerke》（1825-）中包含两卷“ freundschaftliche Briefe”标志着该书信在19世纪纪念性建筑中的新角色温克尔曼（德国）的经典作品。我们建议，这种传统对字母产生了遥远甚至偷窥的观点，将它们视为情感，有时是色情，亲密和表达的传记场景的窗口。在最近的Winckelmann奖学金中，我们批评了这种趋势的一些例子，