Sabrina Eliasson

Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome sheds new light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying native or visiting elite sitters. The Grand Tour portrait, usually discussed as a purely British phenomenon, is here put in its original context of production and compared to the portraits of the Romans themselves. Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome will become essential reading for anyone with a particular interest in eighteenth-century art and its social use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075964
• ISBN-10: 0719075963
• Artikelnr.: 27067229

Autorenporträt

Sabrina Norlander Eliasson is Assistant Director at the Swedish School for Classical Studies in Rome and is affiliated with the Research Department at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Acknowledgements 1 Introduction The European elite and the
use of 'Rome' The Grand Tour: complex contradictions on foreign and
familiar grounds Different approaches to portraiture Antiquity and
portraiture: a new mythology for socially reliable portraits 2 Of Rome or
in Rome? Laying claim to the imaginary and the real Landowning, archaelogy
and social legitimacy 'No history, surely, can be so interesting to us as
that of the Romans' 'The charms of simple nature': the foreign landscape
and the country house context Reinforcing foreignness: the Van Dyck costume
in the Grand Tour portrait Purchasing and selling antiques: gaining and
losing social prestige 3 Mythological adaptations: Gender and social
identiy A Trojan hero and a princee of Latium at an eighteenth-century
wedding 'Lady, everything in you is Great': Diana/Artemis and the
ambiguities of female virtue 'Before marriage their women are nuns, and
after it libertines': the multiple roles of Cleopatra The seductive pearl:
marriage codex and sexuality 'A number of raw boys': social transition and
initiation on the Grand Tour On the move: initiation and expected change on
the Grand Tour From bachelor to married man: sexual initiation and
homosociability on the Tour 4 4 'FARE ACCADEMIA': Arcadiandiscourse and
social preservation. The Accademia dell'Arcadia: a story of literary and
social compromise The elite in Arcadia: socialbility and pastoral disguise
'A sweet bride and a wise lady': the duplicate roles of a shepherdess
Shepherds on Tour: British travellers in Arcadia The Arcadian landscape and
the Grand Tour portrait Movement and change in Arcadia A Museum context:
learning and display as Arcadian virtue Conclusion Bibliography