Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour
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aristocratic patronage
art collection curation
Audience Hall
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baroque to neoclassicism transition
Borghese Collections
Borghese Gladiator
Borghese Palace
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Ceiling Decorations
Ceiling Painting
Charles Percier
Early Modern Paintings
eighteenth-century Rome
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Fictive Reliefs
Galleria Terrena
historical art exhibition practices
Marcus Furius Camillus
Monte Pincio
Museo Capitolino
Museo Pio Clementino
museum studies research
neoclassical interior design
Piano Nobile
Piazza Del Popolo
Quadro Riportato
Salle Des
Speculum Principis
Stanza Del
Stanza Di
Stucco Bas Reliefs
Vault Decoration
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781138253599
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Carole Paul is Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
