Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and
Portrait by Raphael Mengs, after 1755
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Ferdinand Pettrich, 1866, Albertinum, Dresden
Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Friedrich Wilhelm Doell 1778, Museum of Old Masters, Dresden
Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann against classical landscape, after 1760 (Royal Castle in Warsaw)
Breaking wheel
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The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the Catherine Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Midd
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
…although Winckelmann had thought that Arcangeli was only "un uomo di poco conto" ("a man of little account"). Arcangeli was executed a month later by breaking on the wheel outside the hotel in which both had been staying. Winckelmann was buried in the churchyard of Trieste Cathedral. Domenico Rossetti De Scander and Cesare…
Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin
An execution wheel exhibited in the Museum of Cultural History Franziskanerkloster in Zittau, Saxony, Germany, dated 1775; bolted to the lower rim edge is an iron blade-like thrust attachment
Breaking-wheel machine used to execute Matthias Klostermayr, Bavaria, 1772
Illustration of an execution by wheel, Switzerland, 1513