History of the Society of Dilettanti
Author | : Lionel Cust |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
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 | : 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 | : 148 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Sir Cecil Harcourt- Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1932 |
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Author | : Society of Dilettanti (LONDON) |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Richard Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
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ISBN | : 9783742844996 |
Antiquities of Ionia is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1797. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : William Sotheby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1822 |
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Author | : Richard Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1776 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Lionel Cust |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1932 |
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