Author: J. S. Forsyth
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Antiquary's Portfolio, Or, Cabinet Selections of Historical & Literary Curiosities, on Subjects Principally Connected with the Manners, Customs, and Morals ... of Great Britain During the Middle and Latter Ages, Etc. [With Portraits.]
Author: J. S. Forsyth
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Antiquary's Portfolio; Or, Cabinet Selection of Historical and Literary Curiosities, on Subjects Principally Connected with the Manners, Customs, Etc., of Great Britain During the Middle and Latter Ages
Author: J. S. Forsyth
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Catalogue of the Library at Hendersyde Park
Author: J. Waldie
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Dilettanti
Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Brief History of English and American Literature
Author: Henry Augustin Beers
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Sheela-na-gigs
Author: Barbara Freitag
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134282494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134282494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.
The Rural Life of England
Author: William Howitt
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Confessions of a Collector
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: London : Ward & Downey
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher: London : Ward & Downey
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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