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A Nero may be feared, but would also be despised. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1982.

Richard Payne Knight wrote a Poem, The Landscape (1794) in which he mocked the 'smooth' style of Lancelot Brown. The marbles were purchased, but only after Knight’s criticism had reduced Elgin’s finances and his own reputation.

The architectural style was 'mixed', just as Humphry Repton was later to propose a 'mixed' approach to garden design. Published by the Society of Dilettanti, the work discussed such widely admired examples as the Belvedere Apollo, the Niobe group, and the Borghese Gladiator. This interest is revealed in Knight's book on The Worship of Priapus.

proportion] is an abstract idea.’

Visual arts

For Knight "picturesque" means simply "after the manner of painting", a point which is important to his further discussion of sensation, which in Knight's view is central to the understanding of painting and music which are "addressed to the organs of sight and hearing", while poetry and sculpture appeal "entirely to the imagination and passions." The latter must be understood in terms of associations of ideas, while the former rely on the "irritation" or friction of sensitive parts of the body.

However, it most directly justifies the practices of contemporary painters of picturesque landscapes, such as Girtin, whose stippling effects are comparable to Knight's account of pleasing colour combinations.

For Knight, colour is experienced directly as pleasurable sensation. London: 1818.

Sources

Kopff, E. C. Knight, Richard Payne.

Fear itself can never engender the sublime. Thus a Classical architecture Roman temple is beautiful because of the proportions of its parts, but these proportions can never be perceived directly by the senses, which will simply encounter a mass of confused impressions.

Death and succession

Knight died unmarried on 23 April 1824, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Wormsley,^[10] where survives his chest tomb, now a grade II listed structure.^[11] His heir was his brother the botanist Thomas Andrew Knight,^[12] whose daughter the horticulturalist Charlotte Knight (c.1801-1843) eventually inherited Downton Castle, which passed to her descendants by her husband Sir William Edward Rouse-Boughton, 2nd and 10th Baronet (1788-1856), MP.

He bequeathed all his coins and medals to the British Museum, on condition that within one year after his decease, the next descendant in the direct male line, then living, of his grandfather, be made an hereditary trustee, "with all the privileges of the other family trustees, to be continued in perpetual succession to his next descendant, in the direct male line, so long as any shall exist; and in case of their failure, to the next in the female line".^[13]

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He also came to agree with Repton that a house should have a terrace in the foreground to frame the view of the landscape.
As a landscape theorist, he was a proponent of picturesque and against the gentle and natural layouts of Capability Brown.

Selected Bibliography

An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus. Knight's account of these arts therefore falls under the heading of 'association of ideas'. Blazoned similarly for their cousins Knight of Wolverley, Worcestershire, in: Victoria County History, Worcestershire, Vol.3, 1913, Parishes: Wolverley, pp.567-573 as: Argent, three pales gules in a bordure engrailed azure on a quarter gules a spur or (Victoria County History, Worcestershire, Vol.3, 1913, Parishes: Wolverley, pp.567-573)

↑First name not used in History of Parliament biography

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↑ ^4.0^4.1^4.2^4.3^4.4 Gilman, D.

C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds (1905). "Knight, Richard Payne". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

↑ ^5.0^5.1^5.2 Rines, George Edwin, ed (1920). "Knight, Richard Payne". Encyclopedia Americana.

↑History of Parliament biography [1]

↑His inheritance from his grandfather was discussed in great detail by the judge in the case of Knight v Knight (1840)

↑Ince, L., The Knight family and the British iron industry 1695–1902 (1991), 6

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He made many trips to Italy during his youth, collecting coins and antique bronzes. Knight's apparent preference for ancient sacred eroticism over Judeo-Christian puritanism led to many attacks on him as an infidel and as a scholarly apologist for libertinism. 1, pp. He was a collector of ancient bronzes and coins, and an author of numerous books and articles on ancient sculpture, coins and other artefacts.

As a member of the Society of Dilettanti, Knight was widely considered to be an arbiter of taste. Therefore, 'it is impossible that tragedy should exhibit examples of pure and strict morality, without becoming dull and uninteresting.’