{"product_id":"turin-and-the-british-in-the-age-of-the-grand-tour-9781107147706","title":"Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600–1800, when Savoy-Piedmont was one of the principal political powers of modern Europe, through a series of twenty-two essays by an international group of scholars exploring a range of disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An in-depth study of Turin in the context of the Grand Tour is welcome both because the city was a significant ‘stagingpost’ on the way to Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice and because it has often been left on the margins of Grand Tour scholarship.'  Clare Hornsby, The Burlington Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements Christopher J. Smith and Andrea Merlotti; Foreword Martin Postle; Introduction Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe; Part I. Britain in Turin: Politics and Culture at the Savoy Court: 1. England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts Toby Osborne; 2. Marriage proposals: seventeenth-century Stuart–Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics Andrea Pennini; 3. The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712–20 Edward Corp; 4. The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and British élite identity, 1688–1789\/98 Christopher Storrs; Part II. Turin: Gateway to Grand Tour Society: 5. The British at the Turin Royal Academy: cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism Paola Bianchi; 6. Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy Andrew Moore; 7. 'Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture': British residents and travellers in and about Turin, 1747–8 Edoardo Piccoli; 8. The British and Freemasonry in eighteenth-century Turin Andrea Merlotti; Part III. Torino Britannica: Diplomacy and Cultural Brokerage: 9. John Molesworth: British envoy and cultural intermediary in Turin Karin Wolfe; 10. Silver from London and Turin: diplomacy by display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755–8 James Rothwell; 11. The 'Savoyard': the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters Jonathan Yarker; 12. The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in the eighteenth century Paola Cozzo; Part IV. Turin and Britain: Architectural Crossroads: 13. Architects and kings in Grand Tour Europe Tomasso Manfredi; 14. A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for Lord Burlington Cristina Ruggero; 15. Crossing borders: the pioneering role of the architect-engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and Britain Olga Zoller; Part V. Britain and Turin: Chinoiserie as an International Aesthetic: 16. Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international language of diplomacy and modernity Christopher M. S. Johns; 17. 'Alla China': the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont Cristina Mossetti; 18. The British garden in Piedmont in the late eighteenth century: variations on the picturesque, the Anglo-Chinese and the landscape garden Paolo Cornaglia; Part VI. Turin in Britain: Cultural Exchange in Grand Tour Europe: 19. A plurality of pluras: the Plura family of sculptors between Turin and Britain Alastair Laing; 20. 'A memorable era in the instrumental music of this kingdom': Piedmontese musicians in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century Annarita Colturato; 21. The British Baretti: didactics and criticism Cristina Bracchi; 22. Vittorio Alfieri and the 'English Republic': reflections on an elective affinity Francesca Fedi; Appendices: I. British diplomats and visitors to Turin in the eighteenth century Christopher Storrs; Sabaudian diplomats to London in the eighteenth century Andrea Merlotti; II. British attendees at the Turin Royal Academy Paola Bianchi; III. Letters from the Molesworth–Galilei correspondence, 1721–5 Karin Wolfe; References; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186716500311,"sku":"9781107147706","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/turin-and-the-british-in-the-age-of-the-grand-tour-9781107147706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}