Author : Sabrina Norlander
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome by : Sabrina Norlander
Download or read book Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome written by Sabrina Norlander and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete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.