photographer Robbert Flick

and examine the conservation of mosaics both in the museum setting and in situ

Oliver Taplin is professor of classics at Magdalen College

the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning

approaches

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England Cycladic photographer Robbert FlickBruce Redford With elegance and wit, Bruce Redford re creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettanti. He dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732,