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A Catalogue Of A Grand And Curious Collection Of Ancient And Modern Engravings And Etchings Consigned From Abroad Which Has Been Many Years Collecting By An Eminent Connoisseur Now Offered To The Public By Walter Shropshire On The First Of February 1770
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Download or read book Dilettanti written by Bruce Redford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. 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. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines 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 Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Book Synopsis A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by : John Thomas Smith
Download or read book A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 written by John Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire by : Samuel Bagshaw
Download or read book History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire written by Samuel Bagshaw and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by : Thomas Wright
Download or read book A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slavery and the British Country House by : Madge Dresser
Download or read book Slavery and the British Country House written by Madge Dresser and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.
Book Synopsis Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by : Thomas Percy
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: by : James Granger
Download or read book A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: written by James Granger and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by : George Milbry Gould
Download or read book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine written by George Milbry Gould and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merrie England in the Olden Time by : George Daniel
Download or read book Merrie England in the Olden Time written by George Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Accomplishment by : Charles Murray
Download or read book Human Accomplishment written by Charles Murray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.
Book Synopsis Curiosities of Literature by : Isaac Disraeli
Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Download or read book The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.
Book Synopsis Art and Identity in Scotland by : Viccy Coltman
Download or read book Art and Identity in Scotland written by Viccy Coltman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history, Viccy Coltman re-evaluates the standard clichés and essentialist interpretations which still inhibit Scottish cultural history during this period of British and imperial expansion. The book incorporates familiar landmarks in Scottish history, such as the visit of George IV to Edinburgh in August 1822, with microhistories of individuals, including George Steuart, a London-based architect, and the East India Company servant, Claud Alexander. It thus highlights recurrent themes within a range of historical disciplines, and by confronting the broader questions of Scotland's relations with the rest of the British state it makes a necessary contribution to contemporary concerns.
Book Synopsis The Curiosities of Ale & Beer by : John Bickerdyke
Download or read book The Curiosities of Ale & Beer written by John Bickerdyke and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by : George Saintsbury
Download or read book A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850 by : Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation. Conference
Download or read book Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850 written by Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation. Conference and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A publication collecting the papers from the CATS conference, Technology & Practice: Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850 This publication contains papers from the CATS conference - Technology & Practice: Studying the European Visual Arts 1800-1850. The conference focused on artists' techniques and materials, written sources, conservation science, the history of science and technology, history of trade, and innovation of artists' materials during the first half of the 19th century. In the preceding several decades a succession of art academies emerged throughout Europe, and another focal point of the conference was the impact of these institutions on a new generation of artists, examining how this manifested itself in their paintings, sculpture, interiors and art on paper.
Book Synopsis Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District by : Frederick Sessions
Download or read book Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District written by Frederick Sessions and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District' by Frederick Sessions, readers are taken on a detailed exploration of the lives and works of key literary figures who were inspired by the picturesque landscape of the Lake District. Through engaging storytelling and insightful analysis, Sessions delves into the lives of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and other renowned poets and writers who found solace and inspiration in this natural setting. The book expertly combines biography with literary criticism, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the impact of the Lake District on the creative processes of these literary celebrities. Sessions' writing style is both informative and engaging, making this book a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of English Romantic literature. As a leading authority on the Lake District poets, Frederick Sessions brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this book, drawing on his research and passion for the subject to present a compelling narrative that sheds light on the interconnectedness of place and creativity. 'Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District' is a must-read for anyone interested in the lives and works of these iconic literary figures, offering a unique perspective on their relationship with the natural world.
