Society of Dilettanti

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1734: The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an...

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1734

The Society of Dilettanti was founded: an all-male group of travelled connoisseurs.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
256-8

March 1755: A committee of twenty-six artists produced...

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March 1755

A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
229-30
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
25 (1755): 127

1786: Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with...

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1786

Richard Payne Knight caused an outcry with his deliberately provocative Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, privately printed but strategically circulated.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
270
Haggerty, George E. “Walpoliana”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 227-49.
249n54

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