Examines the controversy surrounding the motif of Agamemnon unveiled in Vanloo's painting of 1757, Sacrifice of Iphigenia (location unknown), interpreting it as a reaction against Winckelmann's radical classicism as defined in the Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke, published in 1755. Surveys the aesthetic debate in France and Germany in the 17th-18th cs. over the issue of decorum regarding the depiction of this motif, focusing on the theoretical positions of Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, F.M. Grimm, Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus, and Winckelmann.
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