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Introduction: Winckelmann's Secret History * "Puzzling Over Periods": On the Difficulty of Locating Winckelmann's Art History Within the History of Ideas * "Foolish, Bold, Perhaps Even Godless and Vile": A Brief Biographical and Bibliographic Background to Winckelmann's Roman Career * "Fantasies of a Still-Lit Lamp": A Brief History of Vatican-Sponsored Museums in Rome * "What Book's In Hand?": Zeroing in on the Vatican's "Museo Profano" * "I Kiss Him Without Scandal, in Front of All the Saints": How the Profane Was Sanctified, not Sexualized, as "Beauty" * "This New Kind of Gazing-House": How the Profane Was Sanctified, as "Art" * "Gods Without Altars, Altars Without Worshipers": How the Profane Was Sanctified, as "National Treasure" * "The Subtle Grace of Departure": Mourning, Nostalgia and the Image in Winckelmann's Art History * "Palimpsest": Winckelmann, Then and Now * Appendix I: The Published Works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) * Appendix II: An Historical Outline of the Vatican Museums * Appendix III: Excerpt From Clement XIII's Moto Proprio (4 August 1761) * Appendix IV: A Brief Archival Summary of Vatican Palace Construction at the Northern Wing Near the "Museo Profano" (July 1761-March 1762) * Appendix V: Texts of Winckelmann's Three Vatican Appointments (1763-1764) * Appendix VI: Translation of "Winckelmann alla Biblioteca Vaticana" by Nello Vian [1976] * Appendix VII: Original List of Artworks from the Armistice of Bologna and the Treaty of Tolentino (1796-1797) * Appendix VII: List of Statues for Apppropriation from the Treaty of Tolentino (1797).