… groups, thus suggesting that the viewing of art was a sociable experience, works of art being a source of comment and conversation. 11 Even if the motto inscribed in the Great Room, ‘Let No Stranger to the Muses Enter’, seemed to incite …
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… culture of masculine conviviality, which had begun to move away from Addison and Steele’s ideal of informed and witty conversation towards a form of sociability that emphasized shared experience through more ritualized forms of …