Lustrous Trade by Cinzia Sicca, Alison Yarrington

By Cinzia Sicca, Alison Yarrington

Lately, the Anglo-Italian sphere of inventive alternate on the subject of portray has been an more and more efficient region of analysis. right here, participants shift the focal point onto the 2 international locations' both major sculpture exchange. This quantity of chosen essays through financial and social historians and historians of fabric tradition and artwork investigates the various roles and services of sculpture and the ways that this actual cultural alternate used to be manifested. problems with company and the markets for sculpture are highlighted, either within the context of manufacturers of highart and within the wider marketplace of non secular, backyard and ornamental sculpture.

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Scott (1991): 136—7, 193—5. On viewing classical sculpture during the Grand Tour see also Chard (1995). 17. Joseph Spence, the Oxford Professor of History, accompanying Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex on his Grand Tour in 1731, noted that in Italy, and particularly in Rome, it was possible to ‘enjoy the convenience of a sort of contemporary comment on Virgil and Horace, in the nobler remains of ancient statuaries', cf. Klima (1975): 13. 18. Addison (1705), Cooper (1714) and Richardson (1722).

21 Not all entertainments were gratuitous, however. 23 Painting was, after all, what Venice was RE-CASTING GEORGE I 31 renowned for. 25 They also visited local attractions, and (if one can rely on Electress Sophia's travel journal and her memoirs) were not unaware of the parallels between the consumption of art and the consumption of other luxury commodities which offered more immediate and obvious gratifications. 26 Amongst the most memorable moments spent in the Veneto by members of the Brunswick-Liineburg family must have been the visits to the villas of the tenaferma.

Scott (1991): 136—7, 193—5. On viewing classical sculpture during the Grand Tour see also Chard (1995). 17. Joseph Spence, the Oxford Professor of History, accompanying Charles Sackville, Earl of Middlesex on his Grand Tour in 1731, noted that in Italy, and particularly in Rome, it was possible to ‘enjoy the convenience of a sort of contemporary comment on Virgil and Horace, in the nobler remains of ancient statuaries', cf. Klima (1975): 13. 18. Addison (1705), Cooper (1714) and Richardson (1722).

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