Catalogue of Engravings Including a Collection of Portraits in Mezzotint, Stipple, Line and Colours, Many Rare, Fancy Subjects of the Early English School, Fine Mezzotints, Rare Topography, Sporting Subjects, Caricatures and Naval and Military Scenes, Early Line Woodcuts and Etchings by the Old Masters, Etc., Etc. and Water Colour Drawings, Also Valuable Engraved Plates and the Copyrights, the Property of Messrs. Fishel, Adler & Schwartz of New York
Title | Catalogue of Engravings Including a Collection of Portraits in Mezzotint, Stipple, Line and Colours, Many Rare, Fancy Subjects of the Early English School, Fine Mezzotints, Rare Topography, Sporting Subjects, Caricatures and Naval and Military Scenes, Early Line Woodcuts and Etchings by the Old Masters, Etc., Etc. and Water Colour Drawings, Also Valuable Engraved Plates and the Copyrights, the Property of Messrs. Fishel, Adler & Schwartz of New York PDF eBook |
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Pages | 18 |
Release | 1910 |
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The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
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Pages | 932 |
Release | 1914 |
Genre | Arts |
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The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | James Silk Buckingham |
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Pages | 854 |
Release | 1900 |
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Title | Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle PDF eBook |
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Pages | 848 |
Release | 1900 |
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The Printseller
Title | The Printseller PDF eBook |
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Pages | 580 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Prints |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Title | Corcoran Gallery of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Publisher | Lucia Marquand |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 9781555953614 |
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Dilettanti
Title | Dilettanti PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Redford |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2008-08-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892369248 |
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.