A Lush Hymn to Rome, Sweet Rome; At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Miraculous Mass of 18th-Century Works

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 2, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Despite the inconveniences--the bandits on the rutted roads that led into the city, the plumbing once you got there, the outbreaks of plague--Mozart made the journey, and did so with delight. So did the poet Goethe, urbane artists and many dukes and earls. For the worldliest and wealthiest sophisticates of Europe, 18th-century Rome was the place to be.

What lured them to the city was a certain kind of beauty-- expensive, academic, chic and layered in its learnedness--which most knowing viewers nowadays offhandedly dismiss.

There are 160 artists in "The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome" at the ...

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