Italy and the Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italy and the Grand Tour write by Jeremy Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Italy and the Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of such early tourists' interest. In this book, historian Jeremy Black recreates the actual tourist experiences of those who travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour. Relying on the private diaries and personal letters of travellers, rather than on the self-conscious accounts of literary travellers who wrote for wider audiences, the book presents an authentic picture of how British tourists experienced Italy, its landscapes, women, food, music, Catholicism, and more. illustrations, the book highlights the discrepancy between the idealised view of the Grand Tour and its reality: what people were meant to do was not necessarily what they did, what the guide books described as splendid was not always so perceived. Black quotes British visitors as they reflect on their trips, and he discusses what their Italian experiences meant to them. And he considers the intriguing effects of tourism on British culture during this most exciting of centuries.
Grand Tour
Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Tour write by Tate Gallery. This book was released on 1996. Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This catalogue looks at the Grand Tour, a vital aspect of European civilisation in the age of the Enlightenment, from the point of view of several countries and includes the work of foremost artists of the period.
Cities and the Grand Tour
Cities and the Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and the Grand Tour write by Rosemary Sweet. This book was released on 2012-10-04. Cities and the Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.
Grand Tour
Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Tour write by Andrea Amerio. This book was released on 2013. Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they pursued the trail of ancient Rome and the Renaissance to Florence, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Artists soon followed them, and thus yearning also led Johann Wolfgang von Goethe south from 1786 to 1788. 'Goethe's Italian Journey' vividly conveys his profound enthusiasm but also depicts well-organized, early tourism. Just seventy years later, the first photographers captured stations on the Grand Tour on gelatin silver plates. Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914), like Goethe from Frankfurt am Main, and Carlo Naya (1816-1882) produced intensely poetic views of St. Mark's Square, the Colosseum, a smoking Vesuvius, and beautiful fisherwomen on Capri.
The Evolution of the Grand Tour
The Evolution of the Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of the Grand Tour write by Edward Chaney. This book was released on 2014-01-14. The Evolution of the Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.
