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Tag Archives: The Grand Tour
postcard from london
To treat one of the best works of one of Italy’s finest eighteenth-century painters as a mere tourist’s memento of a London holiday- as no more than a picture postcard- must seem callous indeed. However, Canaletto’s art was exactly that … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris, Catchpenny prints, Duke of Richmond, Ferdinand Filip, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Lewis Walpole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, The Grand Tour, The Grand Tour Venice
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w. blake: the quack doctors of painting
The Royal Academy. The real power of the Royal Academy lay in its early days, and the driving force behind its consolidation was not primarily intellectual or social at all. It related to the machinery of distribution and sale. High … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Grosvenor Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Richard Wilson Royal Academy, The Grand Tour, the royal academy, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth
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PASSION FOR POMPEII: “RANDY FOR ANTIQUE”
It was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Pompeii. When the ruins came to light, beginning in 1747, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure , and leaving a deposit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Benjamin West, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Greville, Christopher C. Parslow, Claude Lorrain, Dr. Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eleanor Coade, Emma Hamilton, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Goethe, Goethe Italy, Horace Walpole, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, John Flaxman, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgewood, Josiah Wedgwood, Judith Harris, Karl Weber Pompeii, Lord Nelson, Matthew Boulton, Nicolas Poussin, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Richard West, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Fulford, Sir William Hamilton, The Grand Tour, Thomas Gray, William S. Anderson
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MURDEROUS TRIUMPH OF THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE
“He lost his Antinous while sailing along the Nile and wept for him like a woman. Concerning this, there are various reports: some assert that he sacrificed himself for Hadrian, others what both his beauty and Hadrian’s excessive sensuality make … Continue reading
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Tagged Agostino Penna, Antinous, Antinous Bacchus, architect Robert Adam, Augustus, Brian J. McMorrow, Catherine W. Rinne, Charles W. Moore, Chuck Hudson, Church of Antinous, Clint Borzoni, Ecclesia Antinoi, Eleanor Clark, famous gays, gay studies, Hadrian, Hadrian and Antinous, Hadrian and Sabina, Hadrian's Villa, homosexuality, James M. Saslow, King David, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nerva Roman Emperor, Oscar Wilde, Pierantoni Roman Sculptor, Rochelle Bright, Sarah Waters, The Grand Tour, Trajan Emperor, William J. Mitchell, William Turnbull, Zeus and Ganymede
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MACARONI CLUB
Dashing and dandy and chasing the candy. In Paris and Rome the young aristocrats of the eighteenth century quickly sought out, and made rich those teachers those teachers who specialized in adding grace to the gifts which nature had bestowed. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Towneley, Domenico Angelo fencing, Gaspard de Saunier, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Lord Chesterfield, Macaroni Club, Pierre Rameau, The Grand Tour
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MONKEY SEE & MONKEY DO
During its heyday, the Grand Tour; whereby aristocrats sent their sons to France and Italy to study in the eighteenth century; influenced social life to a remarkable degree. It also created the basic structure of foreign travel which later generations … Continue reading
BETTER AN ITALIAN COUNTESS
It was, by any measure, the most expensive education ever devised. Its classrooms were the capital of Europe, its textbooks the ruins and monuments of eighteen centuries. From it the young aristocrat could learn, if he chose, how to eat,dress, … Continue reading
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