Britannia Romana : Rome in the British Imagination 1700-1800 (P02816)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : ACE-P-P02816

This course explores the powerful allure of Rome and Roman culture, both ancient and modern in eighteenth-century Britain. It will investigate how Roman art was used to serve distinctively British political and social ends. We will discuss the phenomenon of the Grand Tour and the reception of specific works of art (including the Raphael Cartoons and the Apollo Belvedere) and examine the ways in which British artists copied and adapted classical, renaissance and baroque Roman models in portraiture, landscape and history painting. The course will be organised around a series of case studies (which will include paintings and other objects from Edinburgh and its surroundings).

? Keywords : . P.Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England, Cambridge University Press, 1997
. V.Coltman, Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800, University of Chicago, 2006
. C.Haynes, Pictures and Popery: Art and Anti-Catholicism in England, Ashgate, 2006
. R.Sweet, Antiquaries: the Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Hambledon, 2004
. A.Wilton and I.Bignamini, The Grand Tour: the Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Tate Gallery, 1996

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

History of Art, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

• knowledge of a key aspect of eighteenth-century British culture and current art-historical approaches to it

• development of core art-historical skills of visual attentiveness, description and analysis

• refinement of skills of critical reading, writing and argument