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A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain,1660–1851Art 47Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and M. G. SullivanThis remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors workingin Britain between 1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition of Gunnis’s Dictionaryof British Sculptors, the primary source for information on church monuments, portrait busts,carved fireplaces and more since publication in 1951.The editorial team, and invited experts in the field, have drawn on a mass of archival andscholarly material, including Gunnis’s own extensive unpublished archive, to rewrite all themajor lives of the sculptors, and to add over 1,000 new ones. Each entry provides a briefbiography of the sculptor, where possible, followed by a list of his or her known works. Eachwork is identified by date and location, past or present, and provenance, materials, exhibitions,known preparatory sketches and models, and bibliographical references are also recorded.Ingrid Roscoe is an independent scholar, M. G. Sullivan is curator of sculpture at the Ashmolean Museum and Emma Hardy iscollections manager at the Geffrye Museum.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Henry Moore FoundationSeptember 1616 pp. 232x154mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14965-4 £80.00*The Society of DilettantiArchaeology and Identity in the British EnlightenmentJason M. KellyIn 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their firstmeeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the originalmembers had met each other on the grand tour. Originally formed as a convivial dining society,by the middle of the eighteenth century the Dilettanti took on an influential role in culturalmatters. It was the first European organisation fully to subsidise an archaeological expedition tothe lands of classical Greece, and, its members were important sponsors of new institutions suchas the Royal Academy and the British Museum. The Society of Dilettanti became one of themost prominent and influential societies of the British Enlightenment.This lively and illuminating account, based on extensive archival research, is the most detailedanalysis of the early Society of Dilettanti to date. Not simply an institutional biography, three themes dominate this history of theDilettanti: eighteenth-century debates over social identity; the relationships between aesthetics and archaeology; and the meaningsof natural philosophy. Connecting the world of the grand tour to the sociable masculinity of London’s taverns, this book revealsthat the trajectory of British classical archaeology was as much a consequence of shifting notions of politeness as it was a productof antiquarian discoveries and elite tastes. The book places the Society of Dilettanti at the complex intersection of internationaland national discourses that shaped the British Enlightenment, and, thus, it sheds new light on eighteenth-century grand tourism,elite masculinity, sociability, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology.Jason M. Kelly is Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, IndianapolisJanuary 320 pp. 256x192mm. 100 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15219-7 £40.00*Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-century RomeIlaria Bignamini and Clare HornsbyThis important and long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sitesin and around Rome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Based onwork carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the book traces sculptures and other works of artthat are currently in public collections around the world from their original find sites via thedealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain. In the first of two volumes,approximately fifty sites, each located by maps, are analysed in historical and topographicaldetail, supported by fifty newly written and researched biographies of the major names in theAnglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini and Hornsby introduce thefield of study and elucidate the complex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of the Papalcourts. The second volume of the book is a collection of hundreds of letters from the dealers andexcavators abroad to collectors in England, offering a rich source of information about all aspects of the art market at the time.Ilaria Bignamini was an historian of art and archeology. Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome.January 270x217 mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. Vol. 1: 288 pp. Vol. 2: 176 pp. Slipcased ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00*All of the above Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art