The Idea of Italy

Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Scott Wilcox

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Yale Center for British Art
10 May 2022

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Photographs: collections; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers

This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British exploration, appreciation, and perception of Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Sixteen scholarly essays address topics such as the origins of photography; the rise in popularity of cartes de visite, illustrated novels, and tourist albums; and images of regional “types” and heroes of the Risorgimento. Extensive plates, reproduced at full size and including many previously unpublished images, feature the work of artists including Robert Macpherson, Calvert Richard Jones, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Agnes and Dora Bulwer. Situating these photographic works within a longer history of image-making that begins with drawings and paintings from the eighteenth-century Grand Tour, through the photographic inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre, and extending into twentieth-century artistic practices, this study considers photography as a vehicle of cultural exchange and visual translation.

Edited by: Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Scott Wilcox
Imprint: Yale Center for British Art
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 222mm,
ISBN: 9780300263831
ISBN 10: 030026383X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 10 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maria Antonella Pelizzari is professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Scott Wilcox is the former deputy director for collections at the Yale Center for British Art.

Reviews for The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900

Anyone interested in Italy will be fascinated and enchanted by The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900 (Yale). Edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari and Scott Wilcox, it features sixteen essays exploring a wide range of topics - from tourist images of a ghostly landscape of well-lit but unpopulated historical sites to picturesque peasants and outlaws, costumed models and Risorgimento heroes. -James Hall, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of 2022' In Em Forster's A Room with a View, the young heroine Lucy Honeychurch spends 'nearly seven lire' at Alinari's, the shop of a Florence-based firm founded in 1852 and specialising in the photographic reproduction of Italy's great works of art...The images on these handsomely illustrated pages, together with 16 essays, reveal many of the same attitudes that Forster so brilliantly exposes. -Sophie Barling, World of Interiors