Viva Roma!
Subtitle: artists and the trip to Rome
By: edited by Vincent Pomarède ; with contributions by François Blanchetiere [and 9 others] ; translation and editing, Duncan Brown
Contributors: Musée de la Boverie; Musée du Louvre
Publisher: Snoeck Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ghent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789461614582
Subjects: European Art; Exhibitions; Grand tours (Education); Classical antiquities in art; Italians in art; Landscapes in art; Artists; Travel; In art
Other titles: Artists and the trip to Rome
Description: From the 17th - 20th century, the "voyage to Rome" established itself as a source of infinite inspiration where prevails the connections to Antiquity artworks. The former capital of the Roman Empire exercised a powerful hand of seduction through its monuments such as the Coliseum, its nearby sites (Pompei, Herculaneum) and its art depicting ideal beauty, which was inherited from the Greeks.The exhibition addresses all the singularity of a city of contrasts and pleasures, to the light of the South: its different neighbourhoods, its palaces, galleries, restless life of the population, and even gastronomy which stroke new colours to Art in Europe. This catalogue summarizes through text and image this ambitious exhibition. Exhibition: La Boverie, Liège, Belgium (25.04.-26.08.2018).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Musée de la Boverie in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre and held at the Musée de la Boverie, Liege, April 24-August 26, 2018.

Issued also in French with title: Viva Roma! : le voyage des artistes à Rome.

Includes bibliography references (page 237).