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Author:   Sabrina Eliasson ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780719075964

ISBN 10:   0719075963
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   10 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements 1 Introduction The European elite and the use of ’Rome’ The Grand Tour: complex contradictions on foreign and familiar grounds Different approaches to portraiture Antiquity and portraiture: a new mythology for socially reliable portraits 2 Of Rome or in Rome? Laying claim to the imaginary and the real Landowning, archaelogy and social legitimacy ’No history, surely, can be so interesting to us as that of the Romans’ ’The charms of simple nature’: the foreign landscape and the country house context Reinforcing foreignness: the Van Dyck costume in the Grand Tour portrait Purchasing and selling antiques: gaining and losing social prestige 3 Mythological adaptations: Gender and social identiy A Trojan hero and a princee of Latium at an eighteenth-century wedding ’Lady, everything in you is Great’: Diana/Artemis and the ambiguities of female virtue ’Before marriage their women are nuns, and after it libertines’: the multiple roles of Cleopatra The seductive pearl: marriage codex and sexuality ’A number of raw boys’: social transition and initiation on the Grand Tour On the move: initiation and expected change on the Grand Tour From bachelor to married man: sexual initiation and homosociability on the Tour 4 4 'FARE ACCADEMIA’: Arcadiandiscourse and social preservation. The Accademia dell’Arcadia: a story of literary and social compromise The elite in Arcadia: socialbility and pastoral disguise ’A sweet bride and a wise lady’: the duplicate roles of a shepherdess Shepherds on Tour: British travellers in Arcadia The Arcadian landscape and the Grand Tour portrait Movement and change in Arcadia A Museum context: learning and display as Arcadian virtue Conclusion Bibliography -- .

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Sabrina Norlander Eliasson is Assistant Director at the Swedish School for Classical Studies in Rome and is affiliated with the Research Department at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm

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