Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) was a scholar with wide interests. He studied most different scientific disciplines, and only in his manhood he began to study art by applying all kinds of scientific knowledge and methods.

First he was studying theology in the University of Halle , but then he bumped in books written by broad-minded English and French writers. He was normally listen Baumgarten’s classes about art, but Baumgarten approach as aesthetic did not satisfied Winckelmann. He thought that Baumgarten’s approach was boring, and empty which art categorize by some ahead composed schema, and not by analyzing.After listening Baumgarten’s  classes he thought that it would be good to study mathematics, medicine and physics.

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