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Item Number: 59107
Title: Portraiture and Social Identity in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Author: Eliasson, Sabrina Norlander
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719075964
Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. 24cm., hardcover, 174pp. illus. Summary: Portraiture and social identity in eighteenth-century Rome sheds light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome. Drawing upon a wealth of unpublished documents and previously unexamined literary texts, it offers new insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying innate or visiting elite sitters. The Grand Tour portrait, usually discussed as a purely British phenomenon, is here put in its original context of production and compared to the portraits of the Romans themselves. The book is divided into three chapters. The first examines the metaphor of land and geography and indicates how a concrete or a symbolical Roman citizenship provoked diverse solutions for the portrait painters when using landscape as a setting. The second chapter approaches the rich, and often gendered, adaptations of the classical myths that occurred in Rome. Well-known settings, like that of Cleopatra for women, are here examined through their diverse use among different groups of sitters. The third and final chapter enlightens the institutional aspect of the myth of Antiquity through the impact of the literary Accademia dell’Arcadia on portrait painting, a subject which has been little addressed before.

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