Abstract
Over the past two decades, pathbreaking blockbuster exhibitions have focused welcome attention on the interrelated subjects of eighteenth-century Italy and the Grand Tour, emphasizing not only Italian artistic achievement, long—and still—underappreciated, but also the extremely influential role of the peninsula in European culture during the period. Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century appeared in London and Rome in 1996-7, while shows were devoted to Naples in 1981-2, to Venice in 1994-5, and to Rome in 2000. Correlated with this interest is the increase in serious scholarly activity in these areas among art historians, as well as by all those considering such inherently interdisciplinary topics as travel and tourism.
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