Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany: 1744-1750
Author: Horace Walpole1744-1750
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany
Author: Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Vol. II, 1744-1758
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368748254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Nowfirst Published from the Original Manuscripto
Author: Horace WalpoleThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany: 1751-1760
Author: Horace WalpoleDictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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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.
Selected Letters of Horace Walpole
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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