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The Dilettanti Society, after Joshua Reynolds. On the left of the composition is (1) Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, (2) Mr. John Taylor, (3) Mr. Stephen Payne-Gallwey, (4) Sir William Hamilton, (5) Mr. Richard Thompson, (6) Mr. Spencer Stanhope, and (7) Mr. John Lewin Smyth of Heath[1]

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 creation of new work in the style.

  1. ^ "'The Dilettanti Society' – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

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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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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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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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fashions Regency dance Régence, the period of the early 18th-century regency in France Society of Dilettanti Era of Good Feelings, for The United States Pryde...

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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requires members to have been a part of either OUCA or CUCA, the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.[citation...

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Thorikos

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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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Tower of the Winds

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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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Mycenae

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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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the Society of Dilettanti to accompany Richard Chandler and Nicholas Revett during the second archaeological expedition financed by the Society, drew...

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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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