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Archaeology --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology. --- Society of Antiquaries of London --- Society of Antiquaries of London. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Antiquities

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Art --- Art: persons --- Society of Antiquaries of London --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Great Britain --- Historiography --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Society of Antiquaries of London. --- Society of Antiquaries (London, England) --- Exhibitions --- Historians

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"This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualize and understand the past." "There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording moments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based timeframes with a clearer understanding of deep time measured in millions of years, in drawing up the first legislation protecting ancient monuments, and in funding and publishing the great excavations of the last one hundred years, from Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Richborough and Sutton Hoo to Aksum (Ethiopia) and Mons Porphyrites (Egypt)." "Visions of Antiquity reveals astonishing echoes, across time - from the repeated and continuing attempts to record all ancient buildings and monuments to the continuity of the title 'antiquary' to describe scholars who build bridges between different branches of knowledge based on the study of material remains of the past and of a Fellowship whose numbers have included prime ministers, bishops, peers and parliamentarians, as well as radicals and free thinkers, such as William Morris and many of the founders of modern conservation."--BOOK JACKET

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The paintings owned by the Society of Antiquaries of London are important for the quality of some of the individual paintings and for the collection as a whole. Before England’s National Portrait Gallery was founded, the Society pioneered the study of royal portraiture, seeking to establish the true likenesses of the Tudor and Plantagent monarchs and some of their continental counterparts. In the words of Sir Roy Strong, the Society’s early portraits are ‘of the utmost national importance ... next to the Royal Collection, the most important series of early sixteenth-century royal portraits to survive as a group’.They are joined in this scholarly catalogue raisonée by works that have been exhibited in Europe’s major museums: among them are Hans Eworth’s portrait of Mary I, Simone dei Crocifissi’s Dream of the Virgin, an outstanding example of fourteenth-century Bolognese Gothic art now on long-term loan to the National Gallery, and portraits of Daniel and Rebecca Minet by Thomas Gainsborough.This fully illustrated catalogue, wedded to meticulous scholarship and the results of the latest scientific dating techniques, ensures that the art historical world now has access to art that will be studied and discussed for many years to come.

Painting --- Portrait painting --- Kings and rulers --- Art dealers --- Peinture --- Peinture de portraits --- Rois et souverains --- Marchands d'oeuvres d'art --- Catalogs --- Portraits --- England --- Catalogues --- Society of Antiquaries of London --- antiquaries --- topographical views --- royalty [nobility] --- devotional pictures --- icons [devotional images] --- 75 <41> --- 069 <41 LONDON> --- Schilderkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON --- 069 <41 LONDON> Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON --- 75 <41> Schilderkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- portraits --- painting [image-making]