The Grand Tour

Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765 was the most celebrated and popular view painter in eighteenth-century Rome. https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1766.html Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm

Rome, founded in 753 BC, became one of the greatest empires that ever existed, Caput Mundi. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91/ https://www.pantheonroma.com/home-eng/ Pantheon https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm

https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizi Johan Joseph Zoffany's Tribune of the Uffizi 1771 depicts the Florentine Tribuna is the hexagonal domed room created in 1585-9 by Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608) at the Uffizi palace for the display of the masterpieces in the Medici collection. https://duomo.firenze.it/en/discover/dome the largest masonry vault in the

For details of Siena a world heritage site : https://www.unesco.it/it/PatrimonioMondiale/Detail/109 For details of the Palio di Siena https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/consorzio-per-la-tutela-del-palio-di-siena For details of Siena cathedral https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/siena-churches/duomo.html

San Gimignano UNESCO world heritage monument https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/550/ further details of collections of works by Benozzo Gozzoli (1421-1497) https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/gozzoli-benozzo

Intrepid explorers Milordi ventured forth from Venice to Ravenna pausing to wonderful sights and monuments in this spectacular and unique walled early christian city of Ravenna: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia : https://www.turismo.ra.it/en/culture-and-history/unesco-world-heritage/mausoleum-of-galla-placidia/ Neon baptistery https://www.ravennamosaici.it/en/neonian-baptistery/ Sant Ap

This episode sees the Grand Tourists travelling across the lagoon to see some of the islands. the magnificent Basilica di Santa Maria Assunt was a must see on for the feast of the Assumption on Torcello https://www.venetoinside.com/attraction-tickets-in-veneto/tickets/torcello-basilica/

How did the Grand Tourists get around Venice? The flat bottomed gondolier was the main means of transport. Rencently, in 2010 the first female gondolier, Giorgia Boscolo was given a licence !

Palladio and Palladian churches loomed large on the Grand Tour with a visit to Il Redentore Church of the Most Holy Redeemer on the island of the Giudecca, during the feast of the Redeemer in July, the festa captured in a painting "La Chiesa del Redentore e il ponte votivo" - Antonio Canal detto il Canaletto

Venice conjured up myths and legend and tales of the unexpected as imagination is full of images of the carnivale and the luminous lagoon framed by the Istrian sandstone churches of Palladio. Viewpoints of the city. Venice continues to attract the ideology of the grand tour to the city and myth of Venice itself. Venice for so long is the home of the Biennale with sights and situati