Dilettanti :
Redford, Bruce
Dilettanti : the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England / Bruce Redford. - Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty Research Institute, c2008. - x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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.
9780892369249 hardcover 0892369248 hardcover
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Art patronage--History--England--London--18th century
Classical antiquities--Study and teaching--History--England--London--18th century
706.042
Dilettanti : the antic and the antique in eighteenth-century England / Bruce Redford. - Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum : The Getty Research Institute, c2008. - x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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.
9780892369249 hardcover 0892369248 hardcover
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Art patronage--History--England--London--18th century
Classical antiquities--Study and teaching--History--England--London--18th century
706.042