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Cover 1 CONTENTS 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 13 ABBREVIATIONS 15 INTRODUCTION: The Amateur Moment 17 CHAPTER 1 George Knapton’s “Pictures in Oil Colours” 29 CHAPTER 2 The Antiquities of Athens and Ionian Antiquities 60 CHAPTER 3 Richard Payne Knight’s “Expedition into Sicily” 99 CHAPTER 4 Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Star and Garter” Pictures 113 CHAPTER 5 Richard Payne Knight’s Discourse on the Worship of Priapus 129 CHAPTER 6 James Gillray’s “Cognoscenti” Caricatures 145 CHAPTER 7 Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809) 159 CONCLUSION: The Amateur Dethroned 189 NOTES 199 BIOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY 209 BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS 222 BIBLIOGRAPHY 223 INDEX 227 A 227 B 227 C 228 D 229 E 229 F 229 G 230 H 230 I 231 J 231 K 231 L 232 M 232 N 233 O 233 P 233 Q 234 R 234 S 234 T 235 U 236 V 236 W 236 Y 236 Z 236
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- Author
- Getty Research Institute.;J. Paul Getty Museum.;Redford, Bruce
- Publisher
- Getty Publications
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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