Alex Potts is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor of History of Art and chair of the department of the history of art at the University of Michigan

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Flavio Conti is a professor at the Facolt di Architettura del Politecnico in Milan

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Oliver Taplin is professor of classics at Magdalen College

Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England Cycladic Alex Potts is Max LoehrBruce 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,