Author: Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892351527
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Eighteenth Century
Author: Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892351527
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A Catalogue of a Very Large and Curious Collection of Books, in All Branches of Learning; in which are Included the Libraries of the Late Rev. Dr. Mason, .... the Rev. Mr. Ray, ... Which Will be Sold, ... this Day 1772, ... by Tho. Payne
Author: Thomas PayneHistory of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher:
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Category : Bridgewater (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia
Author: William MeadePublisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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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.
Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867
Author: William Dunn MacrayA General History of the Burr Family
Author: Charles Burr ToddThree Centuries of a City Library
Author: George Arthur StephenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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