… their first meeting, on January 2 nd 1769, thirty Academicians dined at St Alban’s Tavern with a few members of the aristocracy, invited as connoisseurs and patrons of the art. The following year the Academy held its annual dinner in its …
Academies | Art | Conflict | Dining | Exhibitions | France
… longer an individual characteristic that was openly condemned by everything in the novel but the parlour game of an idle aristocracy in crisis. He portrayed it as a system that hijacked the mind and reached its pinnacle in the art of …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters