The private galleries of Rome were then in process of formation; pictures which had hung in dwelling-rooms were being assembled in those beautiful gilded and stuccoed saloons, with their out-look on to the cloisters of a court, or the ilex tops or orange espaliers of a garden, filled with the faint splash of the fountains outside, the spectral silvery chiming of musical clocks, where, unconscious of the thousands of beings who would crowd in there armed with guide-books and opera-glasses in the days to come, only stray foreigners were to be met, foreigners who most likely were daintily embroidered and powdered aristocrats from England or Germany, if they were not men like winckelmann, or Goethe, or Beckford.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In his Appreciations in the essay on "Style" Pater identifies beauty with expression, just as Croce did after him, and Lessing and winckelmann before him.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Between 1758 and 1763, the place was visited by winckelmann, who wrote long letters in Italian, describing what he saw, to Consigliere Bianconi, Physician to the King of Saxony.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
