Grand tour : a photographic journey through Goethe's Italy = Mit Goethe durch das alte Italien / with an essay by Andrea Amerio ; translations, Charlotte Neugebauer, Hatje Cantz, Stephen Piccolo.

Ostfildern [Germany] : Hatje Cantz, [2013]
©2013

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 49 cm

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they pursued the trail of ancient Rome and the Renaissance to Florence, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Artists soon followed them, and thus yearning also led Johann Wolfgang von Goethe south from 1786 to 1788. 'Goethe's Italian Journey' vividly conveys his profound enthusiasm but also depicts well-organized, early tourism. Just seventy years later, the first photographers captured stations on the Grand Tour on gelatin silver plates. Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914), like Goethe from Frankfurt am Main, and Carlo Naya (1816-1882) produced intensely poetic views of St. Mark's Square, the Colosseum, a smoking Vesuvius, and beautiful fisherwomen on Capri.

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Piccolo, Steve, translator.
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Photographic journey through Goethe's Italy
Mit Goethe durch das alte Italien

Localisation: Bibliothèque main m 284252
Cote: BIB 222958
Statut: Disponible