Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
An Accurate Analysis of the division list on the second reading of the Burials Bill, in the House of Commons on March 26, 1873, etc
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Work of Our National Church. Speech of ... the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Annual Meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan Church Building Society, Etc
Author: Archibald Campbell TAIT (successively Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Study of Sociology
Author: Herbert SpencerPublisher: London, D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881
Author: C.C. BaldwinPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5874721363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 989
Book Description
Alcohol and Public Policy
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309031494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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.