Author: Christ's Hospital (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Charges and Orders for the Several Officers of Christ's-Hospital
Author: Christ's Hospital (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Charges and Orders for the several Officers of Christ's-Hospital; revised by the Committee of Almoners ... and approved ... by General Courts held ... on Monday the 29th day of November, 1784; and on Friday the 11th day of February, 1785
Author: Christ's Hospital (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day
Author: Stephen JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Dilettanti
Author: Bruce RedfordPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
American Biography
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
THE CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE
Author: ARTHUR GRIFFITHSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Illustrations of Masonry
Author: William PrestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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