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Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Age: 50 †
Born: 1717
Born: December 9
Died: 1768
Died: June 8
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