August Emil Braun
August or Auguste Emil Braun (April 19, 1809, in
archaeologist
.
Biography
Braun initially studied
University of Munich and in Dresden. In 1833, he accepted Eduard Gerhard's invitation to Berlin, where he made the decision to devote his career to art history.[1]
In the autumn of 1833, he accompanied Gerhard to Rome, where in a short amount of time, he became a librarian, and subsequently secretary to the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (later the
Works
- Il giudizio di Paride (Paris, 1838) – The Judgement of Paris.
- Die Kunstvorstellungen des geflügelten Dionysios (Munich, 1839) - Artistic notions involving the winged Dionysus.
- Tages und des Hercules und der Minerva heilige Hochzeit (Munich, 1839) - Day of Hercules and Minerva's sacred marriage.
- Antike Marmorwerke (marbleworks.
- Die Schale des Kodros (Berlin, 1843) - The shell of the Kodros.
- Die Ficoronische Cyste (Leipzig, 1850) - The Ficoroni cista.
- Griechische Götterlehre (two volumes, Gotha, 1850–54) - Greek mythology
- Die Vorschule der Kunstmythologie (Gotha, 1854; English trans. by Grant, 1856)
- Die Ruinen und Museen Roms, für Reisende, Künstler, und Alterthumsfreunde (Braunschweig, 1854; English trans. London, 1855).[4]
Notes
- ^ ADB:Braun, Emil @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ .
- ^ Google Books The art journal London, Volume 2
- ^ * List of publications partly copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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