Italian culture in northern Europe in the eighteenth century / edited by Shearer West.

Other author West, Shearer.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Descriptionxiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in Italian history and culture
Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture. ^A309918
Contents Introduction: visual culture, performance culture and the Italian diaspora in the long eighteenth century / Shearer West -- Friends serving itinerant muses: Jacopo Amigoni and Farinelli in Europe / Leslie Griffin Hennessey -- Gender and internationalism: the case of Rosalba Carriera / Shearer West -- 'Those loose and immodest pieces': Italian art and the British point of view / Nigel Llewellyn -- Venice on the Thames: Venetian vedutisti and the London view in the eighteenth century / John Eglin -- Xenophobia and xenomania: Italians and the English Royal Academy / Shearer West --Metastasio and the image of majesty in the Austro-Italian baroque / Don Neville -- Italian opera singers on a European market / John Rosselli -- The théâtre Italien in France / Robert Kenny -- Gustaf III and Italian culture / Neil Kent.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-224) and index.
LCCN 98024920
ISBN0521552230 (hardcover)