The dilettanti culture of the eighteenth century -- Libertinism and masculine association in enlightenment London -- Charlemont and Wood in the making of British classical archaeology -- Architecture and archaeology in enlightenment thought -- Archaeology and identity in the British enlightenment -- A "kind of Turkish fabrick": the ethnographic function of the archaeological topography -- The Dilettanti at the end of the enlightenment.
Summary:
Founded in 1732 as a convivial dining club, the Society of Dilettanti became in time a leading sponsor of the British Enlightenment, sponsoring the Royal Academy & the British Museum, & was the first private organization to send an archaeological expedition to Greece.
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