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

… Résumé 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 … People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Mots-clés Diaries Grand Tour Education Formation Italy Cosmopolitanism International Networks Art entertainment John Ramsay’s Italian diary was published by The Walpole … 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 …

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 … definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academy England Arcadia Association Italy France Social network Intellectual circle Meeting Rome Salon The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… Objects > Art & Luxury Mots-clés Antiquity Art Cabinets of curiosity Collectors museums Aesthetics science Art market Italy Rome Au XVIII e siècle, les collections sont non seulement des objets de délectation esthétique, des possessions … : 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 …

James Byres [ Travel ]

… the social practices of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome.   People > Travel Mots-clés Grand Tour Italy Education Art networks Jacobitism The Scotsman James Byres lived for over thirty years in Rome, where he became one … 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 …

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… her literary works. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Bluestockings Salon Literature biography Italy commerce Born into a Welsh family proud of its ancestry, Hester Lynch Salusbury spent most of her early years in … Guppy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1932), p. 91 ff. The next year would have seen them travel as far as Italy, but the death of their eldest boy, Henry, cruelly upset their plans. An exacting mother, Hester spent years trying … circles on account of her marriage to a Catholic music teacher, she defiantly embarked on a three years’ Grand Tour to Italy with him in 1784. Hester Piozzi’s social circles now changed considerably: Johnson had broken off all connections …

Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… de réseaux tissés à l’échelle européenne. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés love Friendship création Italy Greece Orient Politics Romanticism orgiastic sociability George Gordon Byron est né le 22 janvier 1788 à Londres. … & Sex (Roma: John Cabot University Press; Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) Rawes, Alan and Saglia, Diego, Byron and Italy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017) Seymour,  Miranda, In Byron's Wake: the Turbulent Lives of Lord … grecque, la vie de Byron s’enrichit de réseaux tissés à l’échelle européenne. … love … Friendship … création … Italy … Greece … Orient … Politics … Romanticism … orgiastic sociability … Lord Byron …