Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria
New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. They opened up fresh tracts of countryside and provi...
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| description | New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. They opened up fresh tracts of countryside and provided novel viewpoints and points of interest; many travellers took the opportunity to record these views with topographical drawings and watercolours. In this paper we make use of some of these views to examine how the modernized transport routes released new places to be celebrated by tourists and became themselves features and objects of especial interest and comment. We examine the works of three artists, one English and two Italian, who depicted landscapes of contrasting rural Ligurian landscapes. Their drawings and prints are contextualised and interpreted with maps, field data, archival documents and contemporary descriptions of roads and railways by travellers and in guidebooks. |
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| spelling | nottingham-511972018-10-01T12:50:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51197/ Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria Piana, Pietro Watkins, Charles Balzaretti, Ross New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. They opened up fresh tracts of countryside and provided novel viewpoints and points of interest; many travellers took the opportunity to record these views with topographical drawings and watercolours. In this paper we make use of some of these views to examine how the modernized transport routes released new places to be celebrated by tourists and became themselves features and objects of especial interest and comment. We examine the works of three artists, one English and two Italian, who depicted landscapes of contrasting rural Ligurian landscapes. Their drawings and prints are contextualised and interpreted with maps, field data, archival documents and contemporary descriptions of roads and railways by travellers and in guidebooks. Cambridge University Press 2018-10-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51197/1/Travel%20modernity%20and%20rural%20landscape%20for%20Rural%20History%20160418.pdf Piana, Pietro, Watkins, Charles and Balzaretti, Ross (2018) Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria. Rural History, 29 (2). pp. 167-193. ISSN 1474-0656 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/rural-history/article/travel-modernity-and-rural-landscapes-in-nineteenthcentury-liguria/10657BFEA00933A8E3471F52B386E25D doi:10.1017/S0956793318000079 doi:10.1017/S0956793318000079 |
| spellingShingle | Piana, Pietro Watkins, Charles Balzaretti, Ross Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title | Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title_full | Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title_fullStr | Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title_short | Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria |
| title_sort | travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century liguria |
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