Italian culture in northern Europe in the eighteenth century / edited by Shearer West.
| Other author | West, Shearer. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-224) and index. |
| LCCN | 98024920 |
| ISBN | 0521552230 (hardcover) |