Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0892369248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lionel Cust
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-08
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780332553450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from History of the Society of Dilettanti The building scheme - Suggested sites: the Green Park -the Star and Garter Camelford House - Final abandonment of building scheme - Increasing riches of. 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: Jason M. Kelly
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300152197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Publisher:
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021219282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Chandler
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9783742844996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Peter Clark
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-01-06
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 0191542164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 1188
ISBN-13: 9780674035720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.