Main entry:

Redford, Bruce.

Title & Author:

Dilettanti : the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England / Bruce Redford.

Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty Research Institute, ©2008.

Description:

x, 220 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Biographic glossary": p. [193]-204.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
The amateur moment -- George Knapton's "Picture in oil colours" -- The antiquities of Athens and Ionian antiquities -- Richard Payne Knight's "Expedition into Sicily" -- Sir Joshua Reynold's "Star and garter" pictures -- Richard Payne Knights' Discourse on the worship of Priapus -- James Gillray's "Cognoscenti" caricatures -- Specimens of ancient sculptures (1809) -- The amateur dethroned.

Summary:

"Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. 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"--Back cover.

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ISBN:

9780892369249 (hardcover)
0892369248 (hardcover)

Subject:

Gillray, James 1756-1815
Knapton, George 1698-1778
Knight, Richard Payne 1751-1824
Reynolds, Joshua 1723-1792
Plastik
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Society of Dilettanti
Ästhetik Zusammenstellung
Art patronage England London History 18th century.
Classical antiquities Study and teaching England London History 18th century.
Mécénat Angleterre Londres Histoire 18e siècle.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Étude et enseignement Angleterre Londres Histoire 18e siècle.
20.16 art patronage.
Art patronage.
Classical antiquities Study and teaching.
Antike
Kunstkennerschaft
Malerei
Rezeption
Classical antiquity.
Grand Tour.
Reception.
Konstmecenater historia Storbritannien 1700-talet.
Antika fornlämningar studier och undervisning historia Storbritannien 1700-talet.
Konstnärer Storbritannien 1700-talet.
Brittisk konst antika influenser 1700-talet.
England London.
Großbritannien
England
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
History.

Added entries:

J. Paul Getty Museum.
Getty Research Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262388
Call No.: BIB 193492
Status: Available