The English Virtuoso by Craig Ashley Hanson
Product Specifications
- Title: The English Virtuoso by Craig Ashley Hanson
- Author: Craig Ashley Hanson
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Binding: Hardback
- History of art art & design styles
- No. of pages: 344
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 26 x 19 x 2
Product Description
Contrary to 20th-century criticism that cast them as misguided dabblers English virtuosi in 17th and early 18th centuries were erudite individuals with grounding in classics appreciation for the arts and sincere curiosity about the natural world. This title situates this group at the intersection of period's art medicine and antiquarianism.