In the year 1734, some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those objects which had contributed so much to their entertainment abroad... Sculpture, and the Plastic Art - Seite 285von Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 353 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1857 - 610 Seiten
...tradition alone. When, therefore, in the year 1734, some noblemen and gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...into a Society under the name of ' the Dilettanti,' it is not surprising that they should avow friendly and social intercourse to be the first great object... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 542 Seiten
...society so called, composed originally (in 1734) of some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, and were desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those...contributed so much to their entertainment abroad. On a report of the state of this society's finances in. 1764, it appeared that they we're in possession... | |
| 1832 - 574 Seiten
...of the society. It commences as follows : " In the year 1 734, some gentlemen who had travelled to Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...themselves into a society under the name of the DILETTANTI ; and agreed upon such regulations as they thought necessary to keep up the spirit of their scheme."... | |
| Pickering Dodge - 1850 - 404 Seiten
...minds were endowed with decided energies and elevated notions upon art." As early as the year 1734, in the reign of George the Second, several gentlemen...antiquities of Asia Minor and Greece. In the year 1738, four of their number made a voyage around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, visited Athens... | |
| 1860 - 568 Seiten
...of disparagement and ridicule, is quite modern. In the year 1734 some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...into a Society, under the name of the "Dilettanti," and agreed upon such regulations as they thought necessary to keep up the spirit of their scheme. Mr.... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 648 Seiten
...now existed some 130 years, is due to certain gentlemen, who had travelled much in Italy, and were desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those objects which had contributed so much to their intellectual gratification abroad. Accordingly, in the year 1 734, they formed themselves into a Society,... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 646 Seiten
...now existed some 130 years, is due to certain gentlemen, who had travelled much in Italy, and were desirous of encouraging at home a taste for those objects which had contributed so much to their intellectual gratification abroad. Accordingly, in the year 1734, they formed themselves into a Society,... | |
| Adolf Michaelis - 1882 - 248 Seiten
...from probably in December, AD 1733. 1734" (more probably 1733), "some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...themselves into a Society under the name of The Dilettanti, and agreed upon such resolutions as they thought necessary to keep up the spirit of the scheme." This... | |
| Adolf Theodor F. Michaelis - 1882 - 898 Seiten
...counts, the foundation of the Society 1734" (more probably 1733), "some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...themselves into a Society under the name of The Dilettanti, and agreed upon such resolutions as they thought necessary to keep up the spirit of the scheme." This... | |
| Adolf Michaelis - 1882 - 248 Seiten
...from probably in December, AD 1733. 1734" (more probably 1733), "some gentlemen who had travelled in Italy, desirous of encouraging at home a taste for...formed themselves into a Society under the name of Tlu Dilettanti, and agreed upon such resolutions as they thought necessary to keep up the spirit of... | |
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