The formation of a taste judgement: how Benjamin R. Haydon came to value, observe and evaluate the Elgin Marbles

What are taste judgements? Do they have a claim to knowledge? This article addresses these questions by revisiting the long-eighteenth-century debate on taste judgements and examining the case of a judgement that was unusually explicit about its formation. The painter Benjamin R. Haydon (1786–1846)...

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Main Authors: Ardeta Gjikola, Marieke M.A. Hendriksen, Alexander Wragge-Morley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:BJHS Themes
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X22000091/type/journal_article