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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 279277
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0892369248
Dewey Decimal Number: 706.042
EAN: 9780892369249
ASIN: 0892369248
Publication Date: August 7, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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With elegance and wit, Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. 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, portraits of the Dilettanti were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. These include a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious portraits, which Redford deconstructs deliciously.
The society's support of expeditions to the Levant yielded pioneering architectural and archaeological folios, from The Antiquities of Athens (1762) to Specimens of Ancient Sculpture (1809). These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. As Redford shows, they combine 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 accompanying exhibition Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from August 7 through October 27, 2008.
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