Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century
- Editor: West, Shearer
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Contents
- 1. Introduction: visual culture, performance culture and the Italian diaspora in the long eighteenth century Shearer West;
- 2. Friends serving itinerant muses: Jacopo Amigoni and Farinelli in Europe Leslie Griffin Hennessey;
- 3. Gender and internationalism: the case of Rosalba Carriera Shearer West;
- 4. '[T]hose loose and immodest pieces ...': Italian art and the British point of view Nigel Llewellyn;
- 5. Venice on the Thames: Venetian vedutisti and the London view in the eighteenth century John Eglin;
- 6. Xenophobia and xenomania: Italians and the English Royal Academy Shearer West;
- 7. Metastasio and the image of majesty in the Austro-Italian baroque Don Neville;
- 8. Italian opera singers on a European market John Rosselli;
- 9. The Theatre Italien in France Robert Kenny;
- 10. Gustaf III and Italian culture Neil Kent.