Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England

by Bruce Redford

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892369248
• ISBN13: 9780892369249
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.3"