Carole Paul
The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour
Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate,
2008.
358 pp.; 24 color ills.; 104 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754661344)
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Carole Paul’s The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour is an analysis of the shifting attitudes toward collection and display—form, content, and contexts—in the world of Settecento Rome. With a focus on the Borghese’s Galleria Terrena, the suites where most of the family’s paintings hung, and the Casino Nobile, home to the sculptures, Paul examines the interrelated narratives of aristocratic patronage, grand tour sociability, the international aesthetic...