Com a graça de Winckelmann: imposturas do ideal

Pedro Galé

doi:10.32334/oqnfp.2025n57a1053

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32334/oqnfp.2025n57a1053

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Aesthetics, Winckelmann, Grace

Pedro Fernandes Galé

Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7799-4686

Abstract

This paper seeks to reconstruct Winckelmann's conceptualization of Grace. Based on this fundamental term in aesthetics, we can perceive a series of crucial statements by the author of History of Art in Antiquity that were widely discussed in the context of classical German aesthetics.

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 57 (2025): Beyond Dualism: Configurations of the Body in Modernity

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Articles

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Author Biography

Pedro Fernandes Galé, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

He is a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2004), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2009), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2016). His dissertation, “Winckelmann: A History of Art Between Norm and Form,” won USP’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the humanities in 2017. In 2018, he served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of São Carlos. He is a member of the “Winckelmann-Gesellschaft” (International Winckelmann Society) and executive editor of the journal *Discurso*. He completed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences—USP, under the supervision of Professor Franklin de Mattos. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the UFSCar Postdoctoral Program (PPD/UFSCar – PNPD/CAPES) in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of São Carlos. His research focuses primarily on the following topics: Aesthetics, Modern Philosophy, Art History, the Enlightenment, Philosophy of Nature, Art and Antiquity, Art.

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