Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth Century ... - 9780521187428

Italian Culture in Northern Europe in the Eighteenth CenturyAuthor(s): Shearer West\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521187428, 978-0521187428\nSynopsis\nThis was the first multi-disciplinary study of the dissemination of Italian culture in northern Europe during the long eighteenth century [tel]. The book covers a diverse range of artists, actors and musicians who left Italy during the eighteenth century to seek work beyond the Alps in locations such as London, St Petersburg, Dresden, Stockholm and Vienna. First published in 1999, the book investigates the careers of important artists such as Amigoni, Canaletto and Rosalba Carriera, as well as opera singers, commedia dell'arte performers and librettists. However, it also considers key themes such as social and friendship networks, itinerancy, the relationships between court and market cultures, the importance of religion and politics to the r.