British School at Rome Studies - Series page

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Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour - Title page

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Copyright page

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Contents

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Figures

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Contributors

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Foreword

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Preface and Acknowledgements

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Introduction

pp xxv-xxviii

Part I - Britain in Turin: Politics and Culture at the Savoy Court

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1 - England and Savoy: Dynastic Intimacy and Cultural Relations Under the Early Stuarts

pp 25-26

2 - Marriage Proposals: Seventeenth-Century Stuart–Savoy Matrimonial Prospects and Politics

pp 27-40

3 - The Court of Turin and the English Succession, 1712–20

pp 41-55

4 - The British Diplomatic Presence in Turin: Diplomatic Culture and British Elite Identity, 1688–1789/98

pp 56-72

Part II - Turin: Gateway to Grand Tour Society

pp 73-88

5 - The British at the Turin Royal Academy: Cosmopolitanism and Religious Pragmatism

pp 89-90

6 - Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy

pp 91-107

7 - ‘Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture’: British Residents and Travellers in and about Turin, 1747–48

pp 108-127

8 - The British and Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Turin

pp 128-141

Part III - Torino Britannica: Diplomacy and Cultural Brokerage

pp 142-160

9 - John Molesworth: British Envoy and Cultural Intermediary in Turin

pp 161-162

10 - Silver from London and Turin: Diplomacy by Display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Savoy, 1755–58

pp 163-178

11 - The ‘Savoyard’: The Painter Domenico Duprà and his British Sitters

pp 179-194

12 - The Culture of Confession: The Sardinian Chapel in London in the Eighteenth Century

pp 195-211

Part IV - Turin and Britain: Architectural Crossroads

pp 212-228

13 - Architects and Kings in Grand Tour Europe

pp 229-230

14 - A Homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra’s Sketches for Lord Burlington

pp 231-245

15 - Crossing Borders: The Pioneering Role of the Architect-Engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and Britain

pp 246-262

Part V - Britain and Turin: Chinoiserie as an International Aesthetic

pp 263-278