Society of Dilettanti
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1734
The Society of Dilettanti
was founded: an all-male group of travelled connoisseurs.
March 1755
A committee of twenty-six artists produced a plan for an Academy to improve and promote the arts.
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.