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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… d’identifier les co nditions ayant contribué au développement des collections de spécimens, d’objets et d’œuvres d’art en Grande-Bretagne au XVIII e siècle. Impliquant des collectionneurs, des amateurs d’art, des marchands, des amateurs et des hommes de science, la notion de collection s’est progressivement développée … decoration Objects > Art & Luxury Keywords Antiquity Art Cabinets of curiosity Collectors museums Aesthetics science Art market Italy Rome Au XVIII e siècle, les collections sont non seulement des objets de délectation esthétique, des …

Auction houses [ Trade ]

… on complementary roles as exhibition venues. Crucially, these urban landmarks enabled a social and visible valuation of artefacts. Behind the scenes, auctioneers offered services that professionalized the art market (as brokers, appraisers and upholsterers). As commerce evolved from an early modern market based on reputation and …

William Blake [ Art and Literature ]

… an eclectic reader and sympathized with radical politics as well as with Swedenborgianism. Though his ambitions were thwarted in the emerging market of book selling and publishing, every aspect of Blake’s life gives opportunity to think about Blake and sociability. People > Art and Literature Keywords poetry Art Annotations Conversation Letters Friendship Salons Exhibitions Patronage …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… for over thirty years, at a time when the Grand Tour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly became a key player in Rome’s artistic, cultural and social life. Thanks to his various professional activities, he was a central figure in the social … a guide and an artist to enrich his local and international networks. He became a reference on the Roman and British art markets. For instance, in 1780, the Welsh painter Thomas Jones wrote that Byres was ‘the principal Antiquarian to the …

Covent Garden [ Institutions ]

… Abstract Covent Garden lay at the heart of the eighteenth-century metropolis, beside the major route between the Court and aristocratic Westminster to the … London to the east. It was conceived as a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, … Garden was also the place where the rowdy hustings for the Westminster elections occurred, inspiring many satirical artists. Places > Institutions Keywords Theatre Prostitution Popular Politics London Westminster Coffee-house Tavern …