Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum

Introduction: Winckelmann's Secret History 'Puzzling Over Periods': On the Difficulty of Locating Winckelmann's Art History Within the History of Ideas 'Foolish, Bold, Perhaps Even Godless and Vile': A Brief Biographical and Bibliographic Background to Winckelmann's Roman Career 'Fantasies of a Still-Lit Lamp': A Brief History of Vatican-Sponsored Museums in Rome 'What Book's In Hand?': Zeroing in on the Vatican's 'Museo Profano''I Kiss Him Without Scandal, in Front of All the Saints': How the Profane Was Sanctified, not Sexualized, as 'Beauty''This New Kind of Gazing-House': How the Profane Was Sanctified, as 'Art''Gods Without Altars, Altars Without Worshipers': How the Profane Was Sanctified, as 'National Treasure''The Subtle Grace of Departure': Mourning, Nostalgia and the Image in Winckelmann's Art History 'Palimpsest': Winckelmann, Then and Now Appendix I: The Published Works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) Appendix II: An Historical Outline of the Vatican Museums Appendix III: Excerpt From Clement XIII's Moto Proprio (4 August 1761) Appendix IV: A Brief Archival Summary of Vatican Palace Construction at the Northern Wing Near the 'Museo Profano' (July 1761-March 1762) Appendix V: Texts of Winckelmann's Three Vatican Appointments (1763-1764) Appendix VI: Translation of 'Winckelmann alla Biblioteca Vaticana' by Nello Vian (1976) Appendix VII: Original List of Artworks from the Armistice of Bologna and the Treaty of Tolentino (1796-1797) Appendix VII: List of Statues for Appropriation from the Treaty of Tolentino (1797)