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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… Abstract The Grand Tour was a form of educational travel undertaken by young aristocratic and gentry men. Travel and separation from the home had long been an important means of forming young boys but a nascent Grand Tour developed in the early modern period. It reached its most recognisable form, and the height of its popularity, …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… Abstract James Byres settled in Rome in the 1750s and lived in the Eternal City for over thirty years, at a time when the Grand Tour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly became a … life. Thanks to his various professional activities, he was a central figure in the social practices of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome.   People > Travel Keywords Grand Tour Italy Education Art networks …

John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

… In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George III’s Painter in Ordinary. Their tour lasted two years and for the entire duration of their stay, John Ramsay kept a diary in which he recorded his busy … he was invited to attend many concerts, plays and conversazioni where he met a great number of people including artists, Grand Tourists, ambassadors and even the King of Sweden. People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Keywords Diaries Grand Tour Education Formation Italy Cosmopolitanism International Networks Art entertainment John Ramsay’s Italian diary …

William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

… Keywords Sir William Hamilton Emma Hamilton Lady Catherine Hamilton Dance performance Naples Travel Entertainement Grand Tour As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) welcomed guests from across Europe. … century as a paradise inhabited by devils, 2   Naples had, by the late eighteenth century, become a requisite stop as a Grand Tour destination, due, in large part, to the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum and to Vesuvius being in an …

Cabinets of curiosities [ Nature / Sports & Leisure ]

… engagent ainsi une sociabilité complexe. Places > Nature Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords curiosity museums Travel Grand Tour Gardens catalogues Royal Society Des lieux et des hommes Dans l’aire germanique où les archiducs et les princes … à des hôtes de marque, et tournée vers la démonstration d’un pouvoir. Ainsi, s’il visite sans difficulté les écuries du grand-duc de Florence, Montaigne se voit refuser, en octobre 1580, l’entrée à Ambras au motif d’une glaciation …