Enlightenment

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18th CENTURY LONDON - MAP	This link takes you to an intuitive GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to seventeenth...	London, 18th century, Collections, Collectors, Historical Maps, Enlightenment	view
A border to the unknown: folk ritual and interpretations of astrological phenomena in Edmond Halley’s A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon over England (1723) and James Catnach’s almanac, The Prophetic Messenger (1833), Anya Hancock	Halley’s widely circulated broadside presents one of the earliest rational analyses of a solar eclipse. In it, the Enlightenment scientist...	Enlightenment, Astrology	view
ANTIQUITÉS ÉTRUSQUES, GRECQUES ET ROMAINES (AEGR)	This link takes you to a digitised version of Antiquités étrusques, grecques et romaines, ou les beaux vases étrusques, grecs et romains, et...	Sir William Hamilton, Baron d'Hancarville, ANTIQUITÉS ÉTRUSQUES, GRECQUES ET ROMAINES, Greek art, Attic Red Figure, Attic Black Figure, vases, 18th century, Enlightenment	view
British Collectors of Classical Antiquities	This course is an exploration of British collectors of classical antiquities, their activities and attitudes, and the wider influence of this...	Sir John Soane, Sir William Hamilton, Elgin Marbles, Ashmolean Musem, Dilettanti, C.R. Cockerell, Lord Elgiin, Collectors, Enlightenment, Long 18th Century, Arundel Marbles, Pomfret Marbles, Wedgwood	view
CHANDLER, REVETT & PARS: IONIAN ANTIQUITIES	This link takes you to a website where you can browse Ionian Antiquities, published with permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R....	Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett, William Pars, Society of Dilettani, Ionian Antiquities, Architectural plans, Greek architecture, Architecture, 18th century, Enlightenment	view
FROM GRAVE GOODS TO DEMOCRATIC OWNERSHIP, AN ENGRAVING OF THE TREBBIA TOMB AND THE HAMILTON VASE	This link takes you to a paper entitled 'From Grave Goods to Democratic Ownership, an Engraving of the Trebbia Tomb and the Hamilton Vase', by...	Sir William Hamilton, vases, Collectors, 18th century, Enlightenment	view
GEORGE KNAPTON - PORTRAITS OF THE DILETTANTI	The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735 publishes primary sources and research tools for the study of the arts in late 17th and early 18th...	Dilettanti, Society of Dilettani, George Knapton, Portraiture, 18th century, Collectors, Enlightenment	view
GRECIAN TASTE AND ROMAN SPIRIT: THE SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI	This link takes you to information about an exhibition entitled 'Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti' at the J. Paul Getty...	Dilettanti, Society of Dilettani, 18th century, Enlightenment, Collections, Collectors	view
JAMES STUART SKETCHING THE ERECHTHEUM	This link takes you to al illustration of James Stuart sketching the Erechtheum, from The Antiquities of Athens, vol. 2 (1787).	James 'Athenian' Stuart, Stuart and Revett, Greek architecture, Architecture, Enlightenment, Society of Dilettani, Dilettanti, 18th century, Erekhtheion, Erechtheum	view
NICHOLAS REVETT: THE GREEK DORIC ORDER	This link takes you to an image of a print which was published by the Society of Dilettanti in Volume 1 of Ionian Antiquities, in 1769....	Nicholas Revett, Ionian Antiquities, Society of Dilettani, Dilettanti, 18th century, Enlightenment, Greek architecture, Architecture, Doric	view

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