List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1 Art as “a Grace to Health”:
Physic and Connoisseurship at the Early Stuart Court
2 From the “Applying of Colors” to “the Politer Parts of Learning”:
Art and the Virtuosi after the Restoration
3 “The Extream Delight” Taken “in Pictures”:
Physicians, Quackery, and Art Writing
4 “Assuming Empirick” and “Arrant Quack”:
Antiquarianism and the Empirical Legacy of Don Quixote
5 “Inspiring Reciprocal Emulation and Esteem”:
Dr. Richard Mead and Early Georgian Virtuosity
Conclusion
Notes Selected Bibliography Index