here translated into English for the first time

and examine the conservation of mosaics both in the museum setting and in situ

Alex Potts is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art and chair of the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan

ISBN 978-0-89236-777-1

The monkey

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England Cycladic here translated into English forBruce Redford With elegance and wit, Bruce Redford re creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. He dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732,