Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour

Herausgeber: Bianchi, Paola; Wolfe, Karin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600-1800, when Savoy-Piedmont was one of the principal political powers of modern Europe, through a series of twenty-two essays by an international group of scholars exploring a range of disciplines.

Produktdetails

• British School at Rome Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 185mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1182g
• ISBN-13: 9781107147706
• ISBN-10: 1107147700
• Artikelnr.: 48433492

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements Christopher J.
Smith and Andrea Merlotti; Foreword Martin Postle; Introduction Paola
Bianchi and Karin Wolfe; Part I. Britain in Turin: Politics and Culture at
the Savoy Court: 1. England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural
relations under the early Stuarts Toby Osborne; 2. Marriage proposals:
seventeenth-century Stuart-Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics Andrea
Pennini; 3. The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712-20 Edward
Corp; 4. The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and
British élite identity, 1688-1789/98 Christopher Storrs; Part II. Turin:
Gateway to Grand Tour Society: 5. The British at the Turin Royal Academy:
cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism Paola Bianchi; 6. Thomas Coke in
Turin and the Turin Royal Academy Andrew Moore; 7. 'Never a more favorable
reception than in the present juncture': British residents and travellers
in and about Turin, 1747-8 Edoardo Piccoli; 8. The British and Freemasonry
in eighteenth-century Turin Andrea Merlotti; Part III. Torino Britannica:
Diplomacy and Cultural Brokerage: 9. John Molesworth: British envoy and
cultural intermediary in Turin Karin Wolfe; 10. 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; 11. The
'Savoyard': the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters Jonathan
Yarker; 12. The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in
the eighteenth century Paola Cozzo; Part IV. Turin and Britain:
Architectural Crossroads: 13. Architects and kings in Grand Tour Europe
Tomasso Manfredi; 14. A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for
Lord Burlington Cristina Ruggero; 15. 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: 16. Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international
language of diplomacy and modernity Christopher M. S. Johns; 17. 'Alla
China': the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont
Cristina Mossetti; 18. 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: 19. A plurality of pluras: the Plura family
of sculptors between Turin and Britain Alastair Laing; 20. 'A memorable era
in the instrumental music of this kingdom': Piedmontese musicians in London
in the latter half of the eighteenth century Annarita Colturato; 21. The
British Baretti: didactics and criticism Cristina Bracchi; 22. Vittorio
Alfieri and the 'English Republic': reflections on an elective affinity
Francesca Fedi; Appendices: I. British diplomats and visitors to Turin in
the eighteenth century Christopher Storrs; Sabaudian diplomats to London in
the eighteenth century Andrea Merlotti; II. British attendees at the Turin
Royal Academy Paola Bianchi; III. Letters from the Molesworth-Galilei
correspondence, 1721-5 Karin Wolfe; References; Index.