Reservations and stay of artists in Hotel of Rome
Artists, architects, sculptors and painters housed in one of the hotels of Rome and have left a work, a tangible stamp of their presence or, more frequently, they have transferred in their global art a memory, an deep-seated influence of the contact with the Roman environment. After making the reservation in one of the hotel of Rome, they felt like home, and they became aware of themselves, establishing relationships among them and with colleagues of each part of Europe.
Mainly painters of landscapes constituted the formation of a movement with a common pleasure: nature idealized by Claude Lorrain, and, later, of Salvador Rosa.
This love for nature is so big that would transform the classic view into romantic during year 1700, placing it in the new aesthetic category of the pictorial. This myth of landscape brought John Wotton to Rome after year 1720, Jacob More (m. 1793), Alexander Cozens (to Rome in year 1741), his son John Robert (in year 1778-79), Richard Cooper (around year 1776), and many others.
The most important of all was Richard Wilson (1713-1782; that lived in one of the hotel in Rome in year 1750) whose landscapes achieve a singular and personal poetry. All these painters reproduced the countryside, the Nemi lake, the Albano lake, Tivoli, the Castles according to the already traditional outlines of the "historical" landscape or "ideal" and all of them saw in these Roman environments the ancient ground, where Romans set foot in a golden, and fabulous age, hopelessly lost.
In the 1750-52 sir Joshua Reynolds (1722-92) who lived in one of the hotels in the historical center of Rome, studied Rafael, Miguel Angel, the Carracci, Guido Reni, and Guercino trying to learn the "great way". He is considered the true founder of the English national pictorial school, because, besides sustaining the Italian ideal (with openings to the Dutch and flamenco art) he was a considerable theoretical and the largest sponsor of the institution of a Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London, on the pattern of Paris and Rome.
The English use of the "grand tour" established an intense and almost regular flow of English citizens to Rome, in the capital of Christianity. Thanks to the reservations of hotel, the trip in the continent, by late XVII century, becomes a necessary element for the education of the "gentleman" who stays in Europe to self-teach and get experiences in each field, also in that of fine arts. Forced stage in the itinerary is the reservation of hotel in Rome to have a guide from where to enjoy the city. This fashion explains the enormous blossom of trip books and guides, letters, records, newspapers. Let’s mention, among the many texts of the genre, E. Veryard, Account... (1701), W. Bromley, Travels (1701) and especially Richard Lassel, Italian voyage, (1670-1698) which was the first of great diffusion, almost a handbook that tourists carry usefully with them traveling the hotel of all Italy.
The romantic myth of Rome in English literature of the XVIII Century, attracted poets and prose toward one of the hotels of the city, in the land that seemed to be unique in the world, where the spirit could be soothed with the beauty, in the values of spirit and rediscover the sources of poetry. Here we recollected some of the dates of the Roman stay of the greatest romantic poets.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) he lived in the Ciudad Eterna between years 1804 and 1806.
Lord Byron, George Gordon, expressed the Roman charm mainly in the Aroldo and the Manfredi.
Keats came to Rome in year 1820 and he lived in the red house of España square that later became the "Shelley and Keats Memorial House."
Tourism in the XVIII century continued with very regular rhythm: reservation, confirmation, stay in hotel in Rome. The most famous trip books were those of Joseph Forsyth, A classical tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII, in four volumes and that of Eustache John Chetwode, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters, during a trip in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803. These texts were very used, as well read was "Italy" of Lady Sidney Morgan of Dublin. The following year saw the light the volume Italy of Samuel Rogers which speaks of the hotels in Rome.
In the 1837 poet Rome William Wordsworth came to Rome, in 1838 Thomas Babington Macaulay, author of the songs Lays of Ancient Rome, published in year 1842.
In year 1844 - 1845 visit Rome Charles Dickens who wrote Pictures from Italy in the "Daily News", founded by him in year 1846. Rome saw Robert and Elizabeth Browning come many times, as reminds a tablet in Bocca di Leone 41 street. Robert is the "painter of the romantic romance" and many of his writings are inspired by Rome.
English language Artists in the hotels of Rome
Poets, especially English ones, discovered in one of the hotel in Rome the great emotion able to comfort, of giving a sense to life. In year 1817 Lord Byron finds in Rome his ideal homeland.
The highest thoughts only Rome knows how to inspire, appear in the verses:
Oh Rome! my country! City of the Soul!
Goethe's longing to visit Italy and Rome is clear in the pages of his Italienische Reise. "In the last years the desire had become almost an infection he could have been able to cure only if had been able to see these places and live them. Now I can admit it. He couldn’t look at a Latin book neither a painting of an Italian landscape. The desire to see this land was more than ripened and only now that it has been out, homeland and friends will be for my deeply dear again... "
Taken to Rome, finally quiet, he writes:
"Everywhere I go, I find something outstanding, in a new world. Everything is as I imagined it and everything is different."
"It’s also healthy for my spirit to live with a people so open to reality about which it has been written and spoken so much and that each foreigner judges as he sees fit."
In Rome Goethe acquired an idea of solidity, the sensation of the spirit reconciled with the intellect, the impulse of taking care of big tasks, the sense of completeness, of spiritual happiness.
The United States of America started in on diplomatic relationships with the Holy See in year 1797. Already before that date artists and visitors had crossed the Atlantic to book a room in one of the hotels in Rome. The first visitor chronologically is the painter Benjamin West (in Rome in year 1760 and later in London in year 1764) legacy to English neoclassicism like the rest, another American painter, John Singleton Copley (in Rome in year 1775) who expresses a search of aristocratic fineness, frequently with a focus of figures with the Coliseum as background.
The charm of vacations in Rome, thanks to the reservation systems of hotel, becomes so alive, beyond the Atlantic, that the same new capital of the United States should be modeled upon Roman monumentality. The new confederation of the United States of America had the need to create their stone symbols, their civil temples, their columns, their victory arches arc d’ triumph. The Capitol of Washington and the entire classicist complex of this city that today appears almost affecting in the myth that creates. A tangible relationship was established with the task ordered to Canova of building the statue of President Washington, dressed as an emperor that departed from Rome crossing the Ocean and placed under the dome of the Capitol of Raleigh, where it was destroyed in a fire (the sketch still exists in the Gipsoteca of Possagno).
William Westmore Story was devoted to sculpture, painting and archaeological research, but it’s worth mentioning a his book entitled Roba di Roma where he makes a fascinating description of popular Roman life and traditions, painting with vivacity the interests, curiosities, sympathies of foreign visitors who made reservations of hotels in Rome to enjoy vacations.
Foreign writers are frequently subtle in catching the atmosphere of palace and countryman Rome, still and alive, imposing and family at the same time. Many wrote about the particular scents of the city, as the scent of toasted coffee in the Columna Square that seeped in hotels, or the strong scent of the boiled brócolis sold in the streets of the center next to the lupini, the pinoli and other things of the genre.
It’s impossible to summarize the topics of a literature like this which is related to with the tourist's curiosities. Let’s just take a volume at random and read the index. Of this atmosphere was born the spirit that encouraged foreign colonies of vacations in Rome, especially those of artists. It was raising the archaeological outcome of English fields or the artistic of painters who disguised as warriors with wooden cannons and cardboard weapons who left their hotels and went in procession to Cervara, to flood in wine the happiness of living in a pagan and spiritual climate in unison.
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