Portraiture and Social Identity in 18th Century Rome - Rilegato

Eliasson, Sabrina Norlander

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719075963 ISBN 13: 9780719075964

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

This book 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 Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Product Description:

Book by Eliasson Sabrina Norlander

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0719075963
• ISBN 13: 9780719075964
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 174