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1717 – 1768Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768)Died 8 June 1768, aged 50Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist whose writings on classical Greek art founded the modern discipline of art history. He was murdered in a Trieste inn by an acquaintance who robbed him shortly after he received honors from the Austrian court. His death shocked European intellectual circles.