Overview of Art on the Grand Tour
What was the Grand Tour? Johann Zoffany (1733-1810), The Tribuna degli Uffizi, 1772-1778/9, oil on canvas, 123. 5 x 155 cm (48 5/8 x 61 inches), Royal Collection Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein...
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Approaches to Florence, City of the Medici.Israel Silvestre (French, Nancy 1621–1691 Paris), View of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, 17th century, Brush and green, brown and gray wash over black chalk...
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Navigating Florence. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo or Cathedral), begun 1296, comp 1436.Baptistery, 1059-1128. Loggia del Lanzi, Piazza di Signoria.For travellers to Florence, the main...
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Regarding Johann Zoffany.Johan Zoffany, Self-Portrait, 1776, Uffizi, oil on panel, 87.5 x 77 cmsJohann Zoffany, The Tribuna degli Uffizi, 1772-89, oil on canvas, 123.5 x 155 cm, Royal Collection....
View ArticleArt on the Grand Tour. Week Five. Two Views of a City: Ancient and Modern Rome
Approaches to Rome on the Grand Tour.Unlike Florence, there was a very different cultural situation in Rome. There was no paucity of views, records, maps, written accounts of the Eternal City. It was...
View ArticleArt on the Grand Tour. Week Six. Negotiating Art in Rome on the Grand Tour
On and Off the Beaten Track in Rome. By the late 18th century Rome had been mapped extensively, which was helpful to the visitor. Such authorities as Guiseppe Vasi the architect had created maps with...
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An Artistic Utopia?Johann Baptist Lampi II, Portrait of Antonio Canova, after 1806, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Oil on canvas, 113 x 93 cmChristopher Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1814, Portrait of...
View ArticleArt on the Grand Tour. Week 8: “See Naples and Die!” A Hazardous City for Art...
Painting under the BourbonsJOLI, Antonio, Arrival of Charles III in Naples, Oil on canvas, 128 x 205 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid MENGS, Anton Raphael, Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, 1760, Oil on canvas,...
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Caravaggio and the Neapolitan Tradition. Caravaggio, The Flagellation of Christ, 1607-10, Naples, Capodimonte, oil on canvas, 286 x 213 cms. Andrea Vocarro, The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, c.1640, Oil...
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MATRAINI, Nicola, Portrait of Bernardo Tanucci, 1738, oil on canvas, University of Pisa.Dioscurides of Samos after a Greek original with itinerant musicians, mosaic, find spot, “Villa of Cicero”,...
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