Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… Commons, 1808. Résumé The Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768, was an example of restricted professional and cultural sociability. The statutes limited the number of members and imposed rules of good behaviour to ensure that politeness … a public, who, with the exception of the lower classes, excluded by an entrance fee, could share in the experience of visual sociability. At the end of the century, because of its inner conflicts, the Academy was criticized for its … be seen and acknowledge members of their own class or ‘only for the sake of saying they have been there’. 10 However, ‘visual sociability’ could be achieved through the sharing of aesthetic emotions. The many engravings devoted to the Great …
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