Dilettanti
Subtitle: the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England
By: Bruce Redford.
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum.; Getty Research Institute.
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum; The Getty Research Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780892369249
Subjects: Society of Dilettanti (London, England); Art patronage -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century; Classical antiquities -- Study and teaching -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: The amateur moment; title: George Knapton's "Picture in oil colours"; title: The antiquities of Athens and Ionian antiquities; title: Richard Payne Knight's "Expedition into Sicily"; title: Sir Joshua Reynold's "Star and garter" pictures; title: Richard Payne Knights' Discourse on the worship of Priapus; title: James Gillray's "Cognoscenti" caricatures; title: Specimens of ancient sculptures (1809); title: The amateur dethroned.