Mary Rogers
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2000
The Sabine Villa of the Roman poet Horace, celebrated in his verse as an arcadia of rural simplicity and contentment, was a place embedded in the western consciousness both as an ideal and as an actual, physical site. By the age of the Grand Tour, its general district came to be visited by enterprising travellers. Foremost among these was the great Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay. Ramsay?»s account of the villa in its landscape is published here for the first time. The accompanying essays place Ramsay?»s work within the wider context of the European classical tradition.
Ashgate
Hardback
256
2000
The Sabine Villa of the Roman poet Horace, celebrated in his verse as an arcadia of rural simplicity and contentment, was a place embedded in the western consciousness both as an ideal and as an actual, physical site. By the age of the Grand Tour, its general district came to be visited by enterprising travellers. Foremost among these was the great Scottish portrait painter Allan Ramsay. Ramsay?»s account of the villa in its landscape is published here for the first time. The accompanying essays place Ramsay?»s work within the wider context of the European classical tradition.