History of the Society of Dilettanti
Author | : Lionel Cust |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Bruce Redford |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892369248 |
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Author | : Richard Brinsley Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2016-09-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781333550233 |
Excerpt from History of the Society of Dilettanti Bacchus' 5 Tomb To face 37. Ivory relief of Perseus and Andromeda, after the antique: from the back of Bacchus's Tomb 34. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Edvin Colvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Jason M. Kelly |
Publisher | : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300152197 |
Founded in 1732 as a convivial dining club, the Society of Dilettanti became in time a leading sponsor of the British Enlightenment, sponsoring the Royal Academy & the British Museum, & was the first private organization to send an archaeological expedition to Greece.
Author | : Society of Dilettanti (LONDON) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Peter Clark |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2000-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191542164 |
Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.