The Society of Dilettanti (founded 1734) is a British society of noblemen and scholars that sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the...
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Hellfire Caves (category Caves of Buckinghamshire)
Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (2nd Baronet), founder of the Society of Dilettanti and co-founder of the Hellfire Club, whose meetings were held in the caves...
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Scott Benzel (category California Institute of the Arts alumni)
Ahtrae Acid Free, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles 2017 The Kouroi / The Society of Dilettanti J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2017 Mathesis and Mathematikoi...
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Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
of the Dilettanti Society, he was certainly its leading member in 1736". Dashwood took a prominent part in the proceedings of the Dilettanti Society,...
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Nicholas Revett (section The Antiquities of Athens)
and through his agency, they were elected members of the Society of Dilettanti in London. The Society was founded by men including Gray who had been on...
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Greek Revival architecture (section Rest of Europe)
any significant study of the architectural ruins. It was not until the expedition to Greece funded by the Society of Dilettanti of 1751 by James Stuart...
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Delphi (redirect from Archaeological Site of Delphi)
caused much damage. In 1766, an English expedition funded by the Society of Dilettanti included the Oxford epigraphist Richard Chandler, the architect...
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Desmond Guinness (category Younger sons of barons)
Ireland and was awarded the gold medal of the Eire Society of Boston. He was a member of the Society of Dilettanti in London. In 2006 he was presented with...
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George Knapton (category Surveyors of the King's Pictures)
painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s. He became Surveyor and Keeper of the King's Pictures from 1765 to 1778. Knapton...
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William Gell (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
most of them illustrated with his own sketches. He was in 1807 elected a Member of the Society of Dilettanti and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1811...
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Dining club (category Lists of organizations)
requires members to have been a part of either OUCA or CUCA, the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively. Others...
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Regency era (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
period of the early 18th-century regency in France Society of Dilettanti Era of Good Feelings, for The United States Pryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British...
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Neoclassical architecture (redirect from History of neoclassical architecture)
knowledge of surviving Greek buildings before the middle of the 18th century in Western Europe, when an expedition funded by the Society of Dilettanti in 1751...
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Parthenon (redirect from Temple of Athena)
commissioned by the Society of Dilettanti to survey the ruins of classical Athens. They produced the first measured drawings of the Parthenon, published...
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Joseph Banks (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
Around 80 species of plants bear his name. He was the leading founder of the African Association and a member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to...
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of the Society of Dilettanti. The dedicatory inscription was found at the end of one of the temple's walls, together with records of the Prienean Civic...
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Richard (1776). Travels in Greece: Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. pp. 169–171. JSTOR 9781230252797. "Nympholepsy"...
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Thorikos (redirect from History of Thoricus)
for the cult of Demeter and Kore, the "Maiden" her daughter Persephone. The temple was initially explored by the Society of Dilettanti of London in 1817...
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Cyril Graham (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and of the Linnean Society, in 1858. He joined the Society of Dilettanti in 1863. He belonged...
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Mycenae (category Aegean palaces of the Bronze Age)
and drew parts of the walls and gates. From 1796, however, Napoleon's invasion of Italy encouraged members of the Society of Dilettanti, whose 'Grand Tour'...
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Watercolor painting (redirect from History of watercolor painting)
taken on geological or archaeological expeditions, funded by the Society of Dilettanti (founded in 1733), to document discoveries in the Mediterranean...
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on a Society of Dilettanti scholarship circa 1810. A similar tower in Sevastopol, built in 1849. The Carnaby Temple near Carnaby, East Riding of Yorkshire...
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The next recorded of this site was in 1764-65 when Richard Chandler had his Asia Minor expedition funded by the Society of Dilettanti. The temple was surveyed...
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Priene (category Geography of Aydın Province)
where they were built, were the object of investigatory missions sent out by the English Society of Dilettanti in 1765 and 1868. They were excavated by...
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Architecture of the World. Artists House. p. 63. Penrose, Francis (1973) [1851]. Principles of Athenian Architecture. Society of Dilettanti. p. ch. II.3...
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Stowe Gardens (redirect from Temple of British Worthies)
Earl Temple was a member of the Society of Dilettanti, a group made up of members of the aristocracy who pursued the study of art and architecture. Built...
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Sir Humphry Wakefield, 2nd Baronet (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
also a member of the Standing Council of the Baronetage and of the Society of Dilettanti. He belongs to the Beefsteak, Cavalry and Guards, and Turf Clubs...
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John Peter Gandy (category High Sheriffs of Buckinghamshire)
to Greece on behalf of the Society of Dilettanti. The write-up of the trip was published in 1817 as The Unedited Antiquities of Attica, and in 1840 as...
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Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet (category Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath)
made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1759. He and his brother were founder members of the Society of Dilettanti of which George was secretary...
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Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Barnstaple)
his landlady, with the encouragement of his landlord. In 1742 he was elected to the Society of Dilettanti, a group of gentlemen who wanted to maintain an...
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