Author: Charles Henry Collins Baker
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Category : Portrait painting
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Lely & the Stuart Portrait Painters
Author: Charles Henry Collins Baker
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Category : Portrait painters
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Category : Portrait painters
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Catalogue of Portraits in the Possession of the University, Colleges, City, and County of Oxford
Author: Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Historical Portraits, the Lives by C.R.L. Fletcher, the Portraits Chosen by Emery Walker
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Historical Portraits ...: 1700-1800
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Catalogues of Works on the Fine Arts... by Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Jack Sheppard. A romance ... With illustrations by George Cruikshank. [With a portrait.]
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192565656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192565656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
The Connoisseur
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Catalogue of the Library at Cornbury, March 1917
Author: Vernon James Watney
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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