Search for dissertations about: "Pompeo Batoni"
Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Pompeo Batoni.
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1. Claiming Rome : Portraiture and Social Identity in the Eighteenth Century
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
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