Author: Edward BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome: from Personal Observation During a Visit to Italy in the Years 1818-19...
Author: Edward BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome
Author: Edward BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome. [With a Map.]
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Author: Edward Burton (Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanGentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome from Personal Observation During a Visit to Italy in the Years 1818-19 by the Rev. Edward Burton ..
Author: A Description of the Antiquities and Other Curiosities of Rome. By the Rev. Edward Burton, M.A. Student of Christ Church
Author: Edward BurtonDilettanti
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.