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The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa, undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections, was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study, Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art, architecture, and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style, as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad, the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition, while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality – even modernity – of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance, these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility.

Art --- Grand Tour --- patronage --- exhibiting --- collecting, Italy --- Rome, Palazzo Borghese --- Borghese [Family] --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799

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This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects.

Women tourists. --- 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Elizabeth Vassall Fox Holland. --- Enlightenment. --- Grand Tour. --- Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi. --- curiosity cabinet. --- eighteenth century. --- gender history. --- material culture. --- souvenir. --- thing theory.

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The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had all but disappeared by the start of the Christian era. Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to the intellectual and cultural history of the west, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists, to provide a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.

Etruscans. --- Europe --- Civilization --- Etruscan influences. --- Mediterranean. --- affinity cultural and national. --- ancient civilizations. --- assimilation. --- classical. --- conquest. --- dance. --- decline. --- disappearance. --- dissemination. --- empires. --- federalism. --- genocide. --- grand tour. --- historiography. --- ideological. --- indigenous. --- influence. --- inventing the past. --- linguistic genocide. --- multicultural. --- multivocal. --- mythologies of unlucky conquered nations. --- peoples unlucky in history. --- pleasure. --- religion. --- superstition. --- syncretic. --- taste and antiquity. --- the disappeared. --- tomb paintings. --- tombs. --- uses of the past. --- vanished civilizations.

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Early modern educational travel is usually associated with the Grand Tour: a young nobleman's journey through the established highlights of Europe. Lessons of Travel presents how, in eighteenth-century France, this practice was heavily contested, and the idea of educational travel had far wider implications. Through the study of a huge range of both canonical and little-known sources discussing "the art of travel", from abbe Pluche's educational best seller, The Spectacle of Nature, through Rousseau's Emile to practical prospectuses for collective educational travel in the revolutionary period, Gelleri investigates what it meant to 'think about travels' in eighteenth-century France. Consideration of who should travel and for what purpose, he argues, contributed to an international intellectual tradition but also provided a pretext for debate on the social status quo, including such issues as the place of the merchant class, the necessity for professional training, the uses of travel for young women and the education of a new generation of citizens of the Revolution.

Grand tours (Education) --- Nobility --- Travel --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Education --- History --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Description and travel --- -History --- Nobility --- 1700-1799 --- 16th century. --- 17th century. --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- Enlightenment. --- France. --- Grand Tour. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Pluche. --- Rousseau. --- Travel. --- ars apodemica. --- art of travel. --- de Genlis. --- education. --- educational travel. --- philosophy.

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A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the pre-eminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience.Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country.Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.

Christian philosophers --- Philosophers --- Berkeley, George, --- Berkeley, George --- G. B. --- B., G. --- Berkley, George, --- Author of The minute philosopher, --- Minute philosopher, Author of the, --- Cloyne, --- Berkeley, --- Member of the established church, --- בערקלי, דזשארדזש, --- Author of Siris, --- Church of Ireland --- Eaglais na hÉireann --- United Church of England and Ireland --- Bishops --- Addison. --- Alciphron. --- Anne Donnellan. --- Anne Forster. --- Francois de Fenelon. --- Irish philosophers. --- Irish philosophy. --- John Percival. --- Mary Astell. --- New Theory of Vision. --- Passive Obedience. --- Pope. --- Querist. --- Siris. --- Steele. --- Swift. --- Three Dialogues. --- education. --- eighteenth century philosophy. --- grand tour. --- immaterialism. --- intellectual history. --- missionary. --- natural philosophy. --- spirit. --- substance.