Search for dissertations about: "eighteenth-century Rome"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words eighteenth-century Rome.

2. 1. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century

   Author : Sabrina Norlander; Solfrid Söderlind; Shearer West; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; portraiture; new mythology; Grand Tour; gender roles; eighteenth-century Rome; portrait display; reception; Pompeo Batoni; Doria Pamphilj; Barberini; Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study examines two groups of European nobility, the Roman aristocracy and the British Grand Tour travellers, specifically, their attitudes towards Antiquity as expressed in portraits produced in eighteenth-century Rome. Antiquity in this study connotes Ancient Rome, particularly its political system, religious system and architecture, and assumes it to be the quintessence of a Western mythology that had supported the legitimation of the ruling classes since the Middle Ages. READ MORE