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History of the Society of Dilettanti 81
The work for the first time revealed to the educated
public the important place in the history of art
which the existing remains of Greek sculpture and
architecture still have a right to hold. The pub-
lications of Dawkins and Wood on the ruins at
Palmyra and Baalbec had excited interest, but had
not appealed to the imagination of a class mainly
educated on classical lines in so direct a manner
as The Antiquities of Athens. <■ Grecian Gusto' became
the fashionable craze of the moment, and Stuart
and Revett found themselves elevated to the posi-
tions of fashionable architects in a new but, it must
be confessed, sadly inadequate application of the
classical style to domestic use. It is from the
publication of this first volume of Stuart and
Revett's researches that the modern study of Greek
archaeology may be said to date j and although the
Dilettanti were not responsible as a body for its
publication, yet without the support which they
gave to it, individually and as a society, the book
might very probably have never seen the light.
The success of this publication, and the accession The Society
to the Society, not only of Stuart and Revett, sends™
but also of Dawkins, Wood, Charlemont, and ^^T*
Rockingham, led the Dilettanti to concentrate Minor.
their thoughts on a new scheme for the continua-
tion of these researches in Greece and Asia Minor.
On the regretted death of Mr. Dawkins in 17^0,
he left a legacy of £yoo to the Society, of which
the following notices occur in the minutes—
1 May, 175:9. Mr. Revett deliverd a message from Mr. Dawkins
of Perriwigs as they were worn at the late Coronation, measured
Architectonically,' with a further statement thatc Least the Beauty
of these capitals should chiefly depend, as usual, on the delicacy of
the engraving, the Author hath etched them with his own hand.'
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The work for the first time revealed to the educated
public the important place in the history of art
which the existing remains of Greek sculpture and
architecture still have a right to hold. The pub-
lications of Dawkins and Wood on the ruins at
Palmyra and Baalbec had excited interest, but had
not appealed to the imagination of a class mainly
educated on classical lines in so direct a manner
as The Antiquities of Athens. <■ Grecian Gusto' became
the fashionable craze of the moment, and Stuart
and Revett found themselves elevated to the posi-
tions of fashionable architects in a new but, it must
be confessed, sadly inadequate application of the
classical style to domestic use. It is from the
publication of this first volume of Stuart and
Revett's researches that the modern study of Greek
archaeology may be said to date j and although the
Dilettanti were not responsible as a body for its
publication, yet without the support which they
gave to it, individually and as a society, the book
might very probably have never seen the light.
The success of this publication, and the accession The Society
to the Society, not only of Stuart and Revett, sends™
but also of Dawkins, Wood, Charlemont, and ^^T*
Rockingham, led the Dilettanti to concentrate Minor.
their thoughts on a new scheme for the continua-
tion of these researches in Greece and Asia Minor.
On the regretted death of Mr. Dawkins in 17^0,
he left a legacy of £yoo to the Society, of which
the following notices occur in the minutes—
1 May, 175:9. Mr. Revett deliverd a message from Mr. Dawkins
of Perriwigs as they were worn at the late Coronation, measured
Architectonically,' with a further statement thatc Least the Beauty
of these capitals should chiefly depend, as usual, on the delicacy of
the engraving, the Author hath etched them with his own hand.'
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