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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in 18th-Century England
by Bruce Redford
A companion to the exhibition, this richly illustrated book examines the vibrant activities and pioneering achievements of the Dilettanti during their first century. Redford re-creates the culture of the passionate amateur by analyzing the society's influential role in the formation of taste and the study of the Graeco-Roman past.
(Hardcover, $49.95)

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Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Edited by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl
This volume traces how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations in the Vesuvian cities. Essays range from a reassessment of the Library of the Villa dei Papiri to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in such films as Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Godard's Contempt.
(Hardcover, $60.00)

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