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The Grand Tour

English

By (author): Mike Rendell

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of passage. Spending many months travelling established routes through France and Italy, they would visit the great cultural sites of western Europe from Paris, through to Venice, Florence and Rome ostensibly absorbing art, architecture and culture. Yet all too often, it was a gateway to gambling and debauchery. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Mike Rendell shows how the tour reached its zenith, examining the young tourists activities and how they acquired polish and an appreciation for fashion, opera and classical antiquity. He also explores their passion for souvenirs and art collecting, and how these items made their way back to grand country houses, which were themselves often modelled to the rules of classical European architecture.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 148g
  • Dimensions: 149 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784424954

About Mike Rendell

Mike Rendell has written on a range of eighteenth-century topics including a dozen books about the gentry the age of piracy and sexual scandals. Based in Dorset UK he also travels extensively giving talks on various aspects of the Georgian era.

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