Dilettanti : the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England / Bruce Redford.
Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty Research Institute, c2008.Description: x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780892369249
- 0892369248
- 706.042
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Book - 7-day loan | CYA Library Main Collection | 706.042 RED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000011309 |
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.