(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - About the Personal Life and Relationships of Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (ca. 1777) by Anton Raphael Mengs. Oil on canvas, 63.5 × 49.2 cm (New York, United States: Metropolitan Museum of Art).

From Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde by Michael Matthew Kaylor (Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk University Press, 2006). Footnotes omitted.

Note: Winckelmann became a private tutor to Peter Lamprecht in 1742, when the former was aged twenty-five and the latter fourteen.

After being appointed to tutor Friedrich Wilhelm Peter Lamprecht (1728-97), son of the chief magistrate of Hadmersleben, in Sachsen Anhalt, Germany, Winckelmann soon exceeded his tutorial role, his illicit ‘friendship’ with the younger Lamprecht evolving into ‘the great love of Winckelmann’s life’. This situation became ‘a composition in pedagogy and passion’, such that ‘when Winckelmann left the Lamprecht family house in the spring of 1743 to take up a position as assistant headmaster in a school in Seehausen, the young Lamprecht followed, taking up residence in Winckelmann’s room and continuing with his lessons’ for the next five years, lessons flushed with a ‘desire that blends eros, pedagogy, and aesthetics’.

Engraving after an ancient Roman marble bas-relief of the Bithynian Greek youth Antinous, beloved of the emperor Hadrian, as Vertumnus, the god of seasons, located at the Villa Albani in Rome, Italy. Drafted by Nicolaus Mosman and etched by Niccolò Mogalli. From Unpublished Ancient Monuments, Explained and Illustrated (Monumenti antichi inediti, spiegati ed illustrati, 1767) by Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768).

See also

• Adult friend (dictionary)
• Age of attraction (dictionary)
• Boylove
• Ephebophilia
• Greek love
• Loved boy (dictionary)
• Minor-attracted person (dictionary)
• Pederasty
• Pedophilia
• Young friend (dictionary)