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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]
… knowledge, and real taste. We generally pass two or three hours every evening at the conversazionis..." … Grand Tour … Italy … Assemblies … Conversation … Diplomacy … John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781, Volume 1 (of 2), p. 381-386. Full text at the …
Grand Tour | Italy | Assemblies | Conversation | Diplomacy
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James Byres [ Travel ]
… of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome. People > Travel Keywords Art Education Grand Tour Italy Jacobitism Networks The Scotsman James Byres lived for over thirty years in Rome, where he became one of the main … Composed by Himself, vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1814), p. 196. 8 . John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy: with Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters, 5th ed., 2 vols. (London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1790), … him to show them his art gallery where he exhibited the works of art he sold. Thus, the young John Ramsay, who visited Italy between 1782 and 1784 with his father the famous portrait painter Allan Ramsay, recorded that he was invited for …
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Keywords Academies Cosmopolitanism Court Diplomacy Education Elite Europe Italy Tourism Politeness Travel The Grand Tour was a form of educational travel undertaken by young aristocratic and … of western and central Europe, including France, the Netherlands, the German principalities, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, with occasion excursions further afield to the Levant, Russia, Scandinavia and so on. A wide range of activities … those with more international backgrounds. Turin’s Accademia Reale , for example, attracted aristocratic clients from Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia. 2 1 . Richard Ansell, Complete Gentlemen: Educational Travel and Family …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… waters in front of his villa. People > Aristocracy People > Travel Keywords Dance Diplomacy Entertainement Grand Tour Italy Travel As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) welcomed guests from across … same level as the antiquities that could be seen there: the portraitist and history painter William Artaud, who visited Italy in 1796 as a Royal Academy scholar, wrote that, ‘The environs of Naples are truly Classic Ground […] I have been at … de la Comtesse de Boigne, née d’Osmond (Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1921-1923). Hornsby, Claire (ed.), The Impact of Italy: The Grand Tour and Beyond (London: The British School at Rome, 2000). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Music in Naples …
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Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Dandy | Friendship | Greece | Italy | Love | Orient | Orgies | Politics | Romanticism
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… and intellectual sociability. From the highly institutionalised royal academies to the academies salonnières of Italy, they incarnated the practices of the educated, intellectual classes in Europe. In Italy, Arcadia was a prime example of how academies came to be defined as spaces of sociability. This entry will explore … of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven liberally into the urban fabric of European cities, …
Academies | France | Italy | Literature
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… the artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Abstract 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 … Objects > Diaries & Letters Keywords Art Cosmopolitanism Diaries Diplomacy Education Entertainement Grand Tour Italy John Ramsay’s Italian diary was published by The Walpole Society in 2003; it is accompanied by a short introduction by John Ingamells, as well as an index containing the names of all the people Ramsay met during his stay in Italy. Preserved at the National Library of Scotland, this diary was written in two notebooks. The first entry is from 11 …
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]
… Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Objects > Art & Luxury Keywords Aesthetics Art Collecting Curiosity Italy Museums Science Au XVIII e siècle, les collections sont non seulement des objets de délectation esthétique, des … : 2 . Sur le Grand Tour, voir le récit de Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, or a Journey through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and France (London: J. Revington and sons, 1778) et les travaux de Rosemary Sweet, Cities and the Grand Tour. The British in Italy, c. 1690-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) et de Mike Rendell, The Grand Tour (Oxford: Shire …
Aesthetics | Art | Collecting | Curiosity | Italy | Museums | Science
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