Description
This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
About the Author
Paola Bianchi is a Ricercatore confermato at the Universita della Valle d'Aosta, where she teaches Early Modern History. She has researched and written on the journeys of various English travellers who came to Italy in the eighteenth century to be present at the Savoy court and to be part of Piedmont society. Her publications include Onore e mestiere. Le riforme militari nel Piemonte del Settecento (2002); Cuneo in eta moderna. Citta e stato nel Piemonte d'antico regime (with A. Merlotti) (2002); Sotto diverse bandiere. L'internazionale militare nello stato sabaudo d'antico regime (2012); L'affermarsi della corte sabauda. Dinastie, poteri, elites in Piemonte e Savoia fra tardo Medioevo e prima eta moderna (with L.C. Gentile) (2006); and Le strategie dell'apparenza. Cerimoniali, politica e societa alla corte dei Savoia in eta moderna (with A. Merlotti) (2010). Karin Wolfe is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. Her research focuses on topics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian history, including art, architecture, patronage, and collecting, as well as the history of cardinals and the Grand Tour. Her publications include Roma Britannica: Art Patronage and Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Rome (edited with D. R. Marshall and S. Russell, 2011) and American Latium: American Artists In and Around Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour (edited with C. M. S. Johns and T. Manfredi, forthcoming). She is presently completing a monograph on Francesco Trevisani, Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746): A Universal Painter, Catalogue Raisonne.
Reviews
'An in-depth study of Turin in the context of the Grand Tour is welcome both because the city was a significant 'stagingpost' on the way to Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice and because it has often been left on the margins of Grand Tour scholarship.' Clare Hornsby, The Burlington Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9781316602133
Author Paola Bianchi
Format Paperback
Page Count 515
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 891g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 26mm