'Germany at that time presented nothing in which he [Winckelmann] could have anticipated Iphigenie, and the formation of an effective classical tradition in German literature.' (88)

'At Rome, spending a whole year drawing from the antique, in preparation for Iphigenie, he [Goethe] finds the stimulus of Winckelmann's memory ever active.' (92-93)

'So perfectly did the young Raffaelle infuse that Heiterkeit, that pagan blitheness, into religious works, that his picture of Saint Agatha at Bologna became to Goethe a step in the evolution of Iphigenie.' (113)