Zenith in the Will of Love: The Extreme Situation of Winckelmann, A Novel in Serial Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798218848408)

Art director of the eighteenth century in Europe, Johann Winckelmann had enormous impact on his times, impact Scott Worth terms "the Winckelmann effect" to describe its reach from architecture to miniatures. In his willing use of a writer's unveiled emotions, Johann Winckelmann brought sentiment to join the trend of rediscovering Europe's past in antiquity, outer events redirected on the meaning he lent them so to compel in particular his male contemporaries' inner searches. Then murdered in the time of taking honors, he died never seeing how his reimpressed fame intensified his effect. As to the murder itself the best investigation of then-current method left unsolved the secret motive in lurk behind his death, his intimate knifer's in-likelihood-sexual motive the cause of Scott Worth's speculation in these suspenseful, impactful, penetrating poems . . .