Diploma Lecture Series 2012 Lecture Series 2012 Absolutism to enlightenment: European art and...
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Diploma Lecture Series 2012 Absolutism to enlightenment: European art and culture 1665-1765 Grand Tour Michael Hil 5 / 6 September 2012 Lecture summary: Rome has been the principal tourist destination in Europe since the middle ages. Originally the attraction was the relics of saints, but following the Renaissance an increasing number would come to witness the remains of antiquity. In the 17 th and 18 th century Rome was the focus of the Grand Tour, a sort of finishing school for young men needing to learn manners, history, and the ways of the world. A new type of art arose to cater to the Grand tourist – the view picture and the caprice landscape. A new genre of writing also arose – the travel journal, of which the greatest exponent was Johann Goethe, whose Italian Journey is a memorable account of the impression the Eternal City can make on the mind. Slide list: • Pompeo Batoni, William Gordon, 1774 • Caravaggio, Madonna of Loreto, 1600 • Antonio Lafrery, Seven Churches of Rome, 1575 • Giovanni Maggi, St Peter’s, 1625 • Piranesi, Aquaduct of Nero, 1760 • David Allen, Piazza di Spagna, 1775 • Pier Leone Ghezzi, Dr James Hay as Bear Leader, 1725 • Pompeo Batoni, Thomas William Coke, 1774 • Giovanni Panini, Imaginary Gallery with Views of Rome, 1757 • Piranesi, View of Arch of Septimus Severus, 1750 • Piranesi, An Ancient Port, 1750 • Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Arch of Constantine, 1648 • Hubert Robert, Port of Ripetta, 1767 • Tischbein, Goethe in Campagna, 1787 Reference: Addison, Joseph. “Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the years 1701, 1702, 1703, 1705”, in The Works , London, 1811, v. II, 1-205 Beckford, Peter. Familiar Letters from Italy to a Friend in England , 2 vols. London, 1805. Carlin, Scott, The Grand Tour. The Colonial Discovery of Europe , ex. cat. Historic Houses Trust NSW, Sydney, 1993 * * *
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Diploma Lecture Series 2012 Absolutism to enlightenment: European art and culture 1665-1765
Grand Tour
Michael Hil
5 / 6 September 2012
Lecture summary: Rome has been the principal tourist destination in Europe since the middle ages. Originally the attraction was the relics of saints, but following the Renaissance an increasing number would come to witness the remains of antiquity. In the 17th and 18th century Rome was the focus of the Grand Tour, a sort of finishing school for young men needing to learn manners, history, and the ways of the world. A new type of art arose to cater to the Grand tourist – the view picture and the caprice landscape. A new genre of writing also arose – the travel journal, of which the greatest exponent was Johann Goethe, whose Italian Journey is a memorable account of the impression the Eternal City can make on the mind. Slide list:
• Pompeo Batoni, William Gordon, 1774
• Caravaggio, Madonna of Loreto, 1600
• Antonio Lafrery, Seven Churches of Rome, 1575
• Giovanni Maggi, St Peter’s, 1625
• Piranesi, Aquaduct of Nero, 1760
• David Allen, Piazza di Spagna, 1775
• Pier Leone Ghezzi, Dr James Hay as Bear Leader, 1725
• Pompeo Batoni, Thomas William Coke, 1774
• Giovanni Panini, Imaginary Gallery with Views of Rome, 1757
• Piranesi, View of Arch of Septimus Severus, 1750
• Piranesi, An Ancient Port, 1750
• Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Arch of Constantine, 1648
• Hubert Robert, Port of Ripetta, 1767
• Tischbein, Goethe in Campagna, 1787
Reference: Addison, Joseph. “Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the years 1701, 1702, 1703, 1705”, in The Works, London, 1811, v. II, 1-205 Beckford, Peter. Familiar Letters from Italy to a Friend in England, 2 vols. London, 1805.
Carlin, Scott, The Grand Tour. The Colonial Discovery of Europe, ex. cat. Historic Houses Trust NSW, Sydney, 1993
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