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Genre/Form: | Bildband History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Redford, Bruce. Dilettanti. Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty Research Institute, [2008] (OCoLC)874574336 |
Named Person: | James Gillray; George Knapton; Richard Payne Knight; Joshua Reynolds; Plastik |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce Redford; J. Paul Getty Museum.; Getty Research Institute. |
ISBN: | 9780892369249 0892369248 |
OCLC Number: | 181424143 |
Description: | x, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
Contents: | The amateur moment -- George Knapton's "Picture in oil colours" -- The antiquities of Athens and Ionian antiquities -- Richard Payne Knight's "Expedition into Sicily" -- Sir Joshua Reynold's "Star and garter" pictures -- Richard Payne Knights' Discourse on the worship of Priapus -- James Gillray's "Cognoscenti" caricatures -- Specimens of ancient sculptures (1809) -- The amateur dethroned. |
Responsibility: | Bruce Redford. |
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Abstract:
Shows the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti - a group founded in 1732 devoted to the study, and support of those studying, Greco-Roman antiquity. This title examines its members, and their expeditions, collections, and publications.
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