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Turin and the British in the age of the Grand Tour /
"The Duchy of Savoy first claimed royal status in the seventeenth century, but only in 1713 was Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy (1666-1732), crowned King of Sicily. The events of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) sanctioned the decades-long project, the Duchy had pursued through the convoluted maze...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | British School at Rome studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe
- Part I. Britain in Turin: politics and culture at the Savoy Court
- England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts / Toby Osbourne
- Marriage proposals: seventeenth-century Stuart-Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics / Andrea Pennini
- The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712-20 / Edward Corp
- The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and British elite identity, 1688-1789/98 / Christopher Storrs
- Part II. Turin: gateway to grand tour society
- The British at the Turin Royal Academy: cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism / Paola Bianchi
- Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy / Andrew Moore
- "Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture": British residents and travellers in and about Turin, 1747-8 / Edoardo Piccoli
- The British and freemasonry in eighteenth-century Turin / Andrea Merlotti
- Part III. Torino Britannica: diplomacy and cultural brokerage
- John Molesworth: British envoy and cultural intermediary in Turin / Karin Wolfe
- Silver from London and Turin: diplomacy by display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, envoy extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755-8 / James Rothwell
- The "savoyard": the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters / Jonathan Yarker
- The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in the eighteenth century / Paolo Cozzo
- Part IV. Turin and Britain: architectural crossroads
- Architects and kings in grand tour Europe / Tommaso Manfredi
- A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for Lord Burlington / Cristina Ruggero
- Crossing borders: the pioneering role of the architect-engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and Britain / Olga Zoller
- Part V. Britain and Turin: chinoiserie as an international aesthetic
- Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international language of diplomacy and modernity / Christopher M.S. Johns
- "Alla China": the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont / Cristina Mossetti
- The British Garden in Piedmont in the late eighteenth century: variations on the picturesque, the Anglo-Chinese and the landscape garden / Paolo Cornaglia
- Part VI. Turin in Britain: cultural exchange in grand tour Europe
- A plurality of Pluras: the Plura family of sculptors between Turin and Britain / Alastair Laing
- "A memorable era in the instrumental music of this kingdom": Piedmontese musicians in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century / Annarita Colturato
- The British Baretti: didactics and criticism / Cristina Bracchi
- Vittorio Alfieri and the "English republic": reflections on an elective affinity / Francesca Fedi.