Turin and the British in the age of the Grand Tour

In: British School at Rome studies

Abstract

Introduction / Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe -- Part I. Britain in Turin: politics and culture at the Savoy Court -- England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts / Toby Osbourne -- Marriage proposals: seventeenth-century Stuart-Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics / Andrea Pennini -- The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712-20 / Edward Corp -- The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and British élite identity, 1688-1789/98 / Christopher Storrs -- Part II. Turin: gateway to grand tour society -- The British at the Turin Royal Academy: cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism / Paola Bianchi -- Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy / Andrew Moore -- "Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture": British residents and travellers in and about Turin, 1747-8 / Edoardo Piccoli -- The British and freemasonry in eighteenth-century Turin / Andrea Merlotti -- Part III. Torino Britannica: diplomacy and cultural brokerage -- John Molesworth: British envoy and cultural intermediary in Turin / Karin Wolfe -- Silver from London and Turin: diplomacy by display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, envoy extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755-8 / James Rothwell -- The "savoyard": the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters / Jonathan Yarker -- The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in the eighteenth century / Paolo Cozzo -- Part IV. Turin and Britain: architectural crossroads -- Architects and kings in grand tour Europe / Tommaso Manfredi -- A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for Lord Burlington / Cristina Ruggero -- Crossing borders: the pioneering role of the architect-engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and Britain / Olga Zoller -- Part V. Britain and Turin: chinoiserie as an international aesthetic -- Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international language of diplomacy and modernity / Christopher M.S. Johns -- "Alla China": the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont / Cristina Mossetti -- The British Garden in Piedmont in the late eighteenth century: variations on the picturesque, the Anglo-Chinese and the landscape garden / Paolo Cornaglia -- Part VI. Turin in Britain: cultural exchange in grand tour Europe -- A plurality of Pluras: the Plura family of sculptors between Turin and Britain / Alastair Laing -- "A memorable era in the instrumental music of this kingdom": Piedmontese musicians in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century / Annarita Colturato -- The British Baretti: didactics and criticism / Cristina Bracchi -- Vittorio Alfieri and the "English republic": reflections on an elective affinity / Francesca Fedi