On December 9, 1717, German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was born. Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.
In many ways Shakespeare is the founder of the modern English that we use. He has enriched the way we speak and understand our language (see Shakespeare's development of modern English). In order to express precisely what he had in mind he created metaphors that so perfectly expressed those