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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
British School at Rome studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39822126*spi |
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 élite 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.
