The Grand Tour

Written by: Lynda Mulvin and Michael Collins
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  • art history and the grand tour podcast
    © 2023 The Grand Tour
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  • Roma: La Città Eterna. Part II

    Roma: La Città Eterna. Part II
    Dec 30 2022

    Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765 was the most celebrated and popular view painter in eighteenth-century Rome.

    https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1766.html

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
    https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm
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    26 mins
  • Roma: Caput Mundi: Arrival of the Grand Tourist. Part I

    Roma: Caput Mundi: Arrival of the Grand Tourist. Part I
    Dec 30 2022

     Rome,  founded in 753 BC, became  one of the greatest empires that ever existed, Caput Mundi. 

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91/

    https://www.pantheonroma.com/home-eng/
    Pantheon

    https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm
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    22 mins
  • Firenze: The Tribuna of the Uffizi, and the Florentine Grand Tour

    Firenze: The Tribuna of the Uffizi, and the Florentine Grand Tour
    Dec 30 2022

    https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizi

    Johan Joseph Zoffany's Tribune of the Uffizi 1771 depicts the Florentine  Tribuna is the hexagonal domed room created in 1585-9 by Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608) at the Uffizi palace for the display of the masterpieces in the Medici collection.

    https://duomo.firenze.it/en/discover/dome
    the largest masonry vault in the world built between 1420 and 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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    24 mins

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