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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Gallery, London, NPG D32325, 1777-1779. Image Allen, David, ‘Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton in their villa in Naples’, © Compton Verney, CVCSC : 0357.B, 1770. Image George Romney, 'Emma Hart as Circe', Tate Britain, N05591, 1782. … George Romney, 'Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, 1785. Abstract As British ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples between 1764 and 1800, Sir William welcomed guests from across Europe. He showed them his vast collections of … 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 Europe. 1 Described in the seventeenth century as a …
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… Image Pietro Fabris, ‘Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, 1744-1781, at home in Naples: concert party’, National Galleries of Scotland, PG2611, 1770. Image Pietro Fabris, ‘Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth 1744-1781 at home in Naples: fencing scene’, National Galleries of Scotland, PG 2610, 1771. Image Johan Joseph Zoffany, 'Tribuna degli … and other social activity. Some complained bitterly at the time and expense, but others, such as Sir William Hamilton in Naples, Sir Horace Mann in Florence and Sir Robert Murray-Keith in Vienna, clearly enjoyed and excelled in the …
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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… him to visit three of the Italian cities which were then among the main stages of the Grand Tour: he resided in Rome, Naples and Florence. His stay was organised as follows: Rome from December 1782 to mid-April 1783; Naples from mid-April 1783 to the end of June 1783, then again Rome and its surroundings (Tivoli and Licenza) from the … them. John Ramsay notably had the opportunity to visit the Uffizi gallery in Florence, the Capodimonte collection in Naples and the main ancient monuments in Rome. In his diary, he regularly mentioned his visits as, for example, in the …
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 10-11. 2 . Jean Boutier, Brigitte Marin et Antonella Romano (dirs.), Naples, Rome, Florence: une histoire comparée des milieux intellectuels italiens (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Rome: École … or political administrations rarely founded such institutions. As an example, the State founded only two academies in Naples, and not before the eighteenth century: the Accademia Ercolanese (1755) and the Reale Accademia di Scienze e Belle … and sociable activities. 12 . Anna Maria Rao, ‘Fra amministrazione e politica, gli ambienti intellettuali napoletani‘, Naples, Rome, Florence: une histoire comparée des milieux intellectuels italiens (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) (Rome: École …
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Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Europe | Friendship | Scandal | Translation
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Of Refinement in the Arts (1777) [ Concepts ]
… jealous of its subjects, the Florentine democracy applied itself entirely to commerce; Rome was governed by priests, and Naples by women. War then became the business of soldiers of fortune, who spared one another, and to the astonishment of …
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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]
Friendship | Italy | Poetry | Romanticism
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Le Brun, ‘Portrait of Lady Hamilton as a Sybyl’, 1792, Private collection. Yet it was during her six-month stay in Naples that Vigée Le Brun finally triumphed with a series of portraits Lord Hamilton, the British ambassador, had … her long travels throughout Europe, and upon her return to Paris in 1805, gave it a prominent place in her studio. 9 In Naples, Lord Hamilton received Vigée Le Brun in his various residences, including one with a view of Mount Vesuvius and …
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