Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

Klappentext A 1999 study of how Italian artists and performers influenced taste and high culture in northern Europe in the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung A large number of Italian artists! singers! musicians and other performers travelled throughout Europe during the eighteenth century and made an important impact on taste and fashion. This multi-disciplinary 1999 book examines the importance of their influence outside Italy in locations as diverse as London! St Petersburg! Dresden! Stockholm and Vienna. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: visual culture, performance culture and the Italian diaspora in the long eighteenth century Shearer West; 2. Friends serving itinerant muses: Jacopo Amigoni and Farinelli in Europe Leslie Griffin Hennessey; 3. Gender and internationalism: the case of Rosalba Carriera Shearer West; 4. '[T]hose loose and immodest pieces ...': Italian art and the British point of view Nigel Llewellyn; 5. Venice on the Thames: Venetian vedutisti and the London view in the eighteenth century John Eglin; 6. Xenophobia and xenomania: Italians and the English Royal Academy Shearer West; 7. Metastasio and the image of majesty in the Austro-Italian baroque Don Neville; 8. Italian opera singers on a European market John Rosselli; 9. The Théâtre Italien in France Robert Kenny; 10. Gustaf III and Italian culture Neil Kent.

Product details

• Authors: Shearer West, Shearer (University of Birmingham) West
• Assisted by: Shearer West (Editor), West Shearer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521187428
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18742-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H; Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; ART / European, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, Italy, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, baroque, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Classical style, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Music of film and stage, Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750), ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo