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… the Society of Dilettanti, would continue but they would be joined by society and groups of much broader appeal, often with a philanthropic bent’. 3 3 . Joan Coutu, Then and Now: Collecting Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England … Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures (Los Angeles: Getty Publication, 2003), p. 97. ‘Hardly a country house was now without its library, leather-bound volumes of the English, Latin and Italian classics, splendidly illustrated tomes of … des ducs du Devonshire, ardents collectionneurs depuis plusieurs générations : 8 . Voir Harry Mount, ‘The Monkey with the Magnifying Glass: Constructions of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Oxford Art Journal (vol. 29, …
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