History & The Arts
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
...managed, and the art that might be produced in response to the Grand Tour – from paintings to sculptures, landscape gardens to interior decorations – was one way of doing so...Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour: 2.1 The Grand Tour portrait: people - Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) was the most successful and fashionable painter of eighteenth-century Grand Tour...