ISBN 978-0-89236-777-1

" Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris

Oliver Taplin is professor of classics at Magdalen College

photographer Robbert Flick

the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England Cycladic ISBN 978-0-89236-777-1Bruce 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,