gewahrwerden

Updated: May 23, 2025

It is what Goethe calls his Gewahrwerden der griechischen Kunst, his FINDING of Greek art. Through the tumultuous richness of Goethe's culture, the influence of Winckelmann is always discernible, as the strong, regulative under-current of a clear, antique motive. "One learns nothing from him," he says to Eckermann, "but one becomes something."

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry