In 1814 knight.
Richard payne knight elgin marbles.
He designed with some initial help from t.
Keats s ode on a grecian urn is probably most associated with the elgin marbles simply because of benjamin haydon s battle cry against payne knight concerning the marbles.
36 colour and 50 black and white illustrations.
He served as a member of parliament for leominster 1780 84 and for ludlow 1784 1806.
Richard payne knight 11 february 1751 23 april 1824 of downton castle in herefordshire and of 5 soho square london england was a classical scholar connoisseur archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.
Ellis elgin marbles i.
His parents were thomas knight a clergyman and his mother his father s onetime servant girl ursula nash.
Knight was the grandson of a shropshire ironmaster richard knight whose fortune he inherited.
In 1774 he.
Critic of the elgin marbles debate.
Lo and behold he ends up on the comittee to decide whether or not the british museum should buy them saying he would only offer 15 to 20 000 pounds.
Knight was educated at home.
Thomas andrew knight q.
British museum press 1984 paper 4 95.
Keats s ode on a grecian urn is probably most associated with the elgin marbles simply because of benjamin haydon s battle cry against payne knight concerning the marbles.
Pritchard downton castle herefs.
The elgin marbles b.
1772 8 a picturesque composition in the gothic style though neo classicism dominated the interiors in which symmetry was avoided in the overall planning but not in the individual rooms.
Richard payne 2010 hastings center report 40 3 3 3.
V f r s was his younger brother.
He made many trips to italy during his youth collecting coins and antique bronzes.
Knight richard payne 1750 1824 numismatist born in 1750 was the eldest son of the rev.
Sir nikolaus pevsner s masterly essay richard payne knight in this journal xxxi 1949 293 320 and more recent writings have illuminated the aesthetic theory of that celebrated english dilettante.
Then there was richard payne knight who for ten years went around telling people the marbles were second rate and not even greek but of the roman period he was wrong.
The union of the truth of nature and ideal beauty a view repeated with variations 67.
As haydon records in his autobiography he observed in them.
1751 1824 english landscape theorist member of the society of dilettanti and connoisseur.
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