August Emil Braun

Braun initially studied archaeology and philosophy at the University of Göttingen, then continued his education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technical Educational Institute Dresden. In 1833, he accepted Eduard Gerhard's invitation to Berlin, where he made the decision to devote his career to art history.^[1]

In the autumn of 1833, he accompanied Gerhard to Rome, where in a short amount of time, he became a librarian, and subsequently secretary to the Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (later the German Archaeological Institute).^[2] In Rome, he used his contacts in the art market to acquire antiquities and paintings for collectors, and he established a electroplating workshop to create reproductions of ancient and modern works of art.^[2][3]

• Il giudizio di Paride (Paris, 1838) – The Judgement of Paris.
• Die Kunstvorstellungen des geflügelten Dionysios (Munich, 1839) - Artistic notions involving the winged Dionysus.
• Tages und des Hercules und der Minerva heilige Hochzeit (Munich, 1839) - Day of Hercules and Minerva's sacred marriage.
• Antike Marmorwerke (Leipzig, 1843) - Antique marble works.
• Die Schale des Kodros (Berlin, 1843) - The shell of the Kodros.
• Die Ficoronische Cyste (Leipzig, 1850) - The Ficoroni cista.
• Griechische Götterlehre (two volumes, Gotha, 1850–54) - Greek mythology
• Die Vorschule der Kunstmythologie (Gotha, 1854; English trans. by Grant, 1856)
• Die Ruinen und Museen Roms, für Reisende, Künstler, und Alterthumsfreunde (Braunschweig, 1854; English trans. London, 1855).^[4]