The English Virtuoso. Art, Medicine and Antiquarianism in an Age of Empiricism

This is an intriguing and wide-ranging book which is also handsomely produced and a pleasure to read and handle. It revolves around a series of interconnected themes to do with medicine, the culture of the virtuosi and the emergence of a tradition of artistic connoisseurship in early modern England. Chronologically, it spans from Richard Haydocke's English translation of Lomazzo's Trattato del arte della pittura, scultura ed architectura in the Elizabethan period to the era of Richard Mead in the mid eighteenth century. In the course of this, it gives particular attention to the period of the Earl of Arundel and his circle and then to that of the early Royal Society, while it also lays stress on the interconnections that existed between the various episodes with which it deals, not least in illustrating the extent to which Mead and his associates were conscious heirs to their early Stuart predecessors. Different...

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  Open Access•Anna Marie Roos•Journal for Eighteenth-Century…•2020

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