This study examines the life and works of the poet Friedrich
Leopold Graf zu Stolberg(1750-1819). It begins with an analysis of
Stolberg's essays on poetic expression in relation to Romantic
thinking, and the impact of his poetic style on Novalis's early
poetry. Stolberg's aesthetic education in Italy is examined as well
as his challenge to the idea that classical sculpture was always
the pinnacle of beauty and that the culture of antiquity was the
highest form of humanity, The detection of melancholy in Greek
sculpture, which arises from the transfer of anxieties about
redemption from the artist to the artefact, affected his response
and detracted from the beauty of the sculpture. This view amounted
to an attack on Goethe and Schiller, as it identified the issue of
salvation and death as a weakness in the classical paradigm. The
picture of Italy that Stolberg offered was overshadowed by a crisis
of confidence in the aesthetic insights both of Winckelmann and of
Lessing and was also the basis for lib reception of Raphael and
Michelangelo, Stolberg arrived at a response to Renaissance art and
artists that marginally predates the early German Romantic worship
of artists in the 1790s. The book concludes with a discussion of
Stolberg's support of Romantic politics and Romantic conversions.
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