Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Cappe-Chancellor
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Ulysses
Author: The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles DaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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.
... An Autobiography ...
Author: Margot AsquithThe Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Volumes One and Two
Author: Harriette WilsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781987518733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
"The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson", Harriette Wilson. Harriette Wilson was a celebrated British Regency courtesan (1786-1845).
Sheela-na-gigs
Author: Barbara FreitagPublisher: 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.
Abstracts of Accounts
Author: Leeds, Eng. (Yorkshire). Treasurer's DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description