The 18th century saw the capital of Europe's architectural world transferred from Rome to Paris. The Italian Rococo, which flourished in Rome from the 1720s onward, was profoundly influenced by the ideas of Borromini.

The Roman Republic (Italian: Repubblica Romana) was a sister republic of the First French Republic that existed from 1798 to 1799. It was proclaimed on 15 February 1798 after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of the French Revolutionary Army, had occupied the city of …

The Capture of Rome (Italian: Presa di Roma) occurred on 20 September 1870, as forces of the Kingdom of Italy took control of the city and of the Papal States. After a plebiscite held on 2 October 1870, Rome was officially made capital of Italy on 3 February 1871, completing the unification of Italy ( Risorgimento ).

Jul 13, 2011 · On December 1769, Leopold and Wolfgang left Salzburg and set out for a 15-month tour of Italy and arrived in Rome on April 1770, just in time for Easter. As with any tourist, they visited St. Peter's to assist at the Wednesday Tenebrae service and to hear the famous Miserere sung at the Sistine Chapel.

Carrying Off the Colosseum: British Architectural Encounters with Rome in the 1770s Dr. Frank Salmon, Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on the connections between the Classical architecture of antiquity and British architectural production in the eighteenth century.

Jul 5, 2017 · The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvaldsen, was the city of Rome.

This book pieces together the labyrinthine sculptors' world of Rome between 1770 and 1825. The volume sheds new light on the links connecting Neo-classicism, sculpture collecting, Enlightenment aesthetics, studio culture, and queer studies.

Title: Rome, 1770, Celebration of the Chinea. First Machine:Ancient Building for Trade. Artist: Giuseppe Vasi (Italian, 1710–1782) Artist: After Giuseppe Palazzi (Italian, 1740–1810) Date: 1770. Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 15 7/8 x 22 3/8 in. (40.3 x 56.8 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Gray Foy, 2001. Object Number ...

They were attributed, from misleading inscriptions made at the time of their reinstallation, as ‘Opus Phidiae’ and ‘Opus Praxitelis’. Fuseli’s drawings of 1770-9 were executed during his time in Rome (Schiff, nos. 634 and 636, illustrated with a view of the sculpture, II, p. 137).

A Rome, dès le début du XVIIIe siècle, une extraordinaire abondance de fouilles et de découvertes suscite l'enthousiasme des savants, des collectionneurs et des artistes. Leur passion transforme...