Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

1. Introduction: visual culture, performance culture and the Italian diaspora in the long eighteenth century Shearer West 2. Friends serving itinerant muses: Jacopo Amigoni and Farinelli in Europe Leslie Griffin Hennessey 3. Gender and internationalism: the case of Rosalba Carriera Shearer West 4. '[T]hose loose and immodest pieces ...': Italian art and the British point of view Nigel Llewellyn 5. Venice on the Thames: Venetian vedutisti and the London view in the eighteenth century John Eglin 6. Xenophobia and xenomania: Italians and the English Royal Academy Shearer West 7. Metastasio and the image of majesty in the Austro-Italian baroque Don Neville 8. Italian opera singers on a European market John Rosselli 9. The Theatre Italien in France Robert Kenny 10. Gustaf III and Italian culture Neil Kent.