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Chamber music Harpsichord music Harpsichord or spinet ?
Pianoforte or fortepiano
The major form of early (...)Zoffany’s Sharp Family Pictorial Interpretation
The composition of the painting
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Musical (...)Anthems After the Restoration, and throughout the eighteenth-century, the anthem remained the most (...)
Instrumental Church music The Commonwealth had forbidden the use of instrumental music in church services, and many (...)
Abdelazer Purcell’s contribution to a revival of Aphra Behn’s tragedy, Abdelazer, or the Moor’s Revenge (...)
Theatres Theatres in London Theatres in Edinburgh Theatres in Bath The Georgian Theatre in Richmond (...)
Painting the cities The Circus in Bath
In Bath, draughtsmen played on the regular architectural motifs of (...)Science Astronomy Experimental Science Medicine Topography
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Literature The cities had a flourishing literary life :
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Painting Painters and painting Painting the cities The pictorial field of vision and the optical (...)
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Artists’ London The world of art in London The painters’view of LondonLondonCulture
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The world of art in London Painters’ houses are mostly to be found near Leicester Fields and in neighbouring Soho ; some (...)
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The painters’view of London The pictorial field of vision
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