Grand Tour

(noun)

The traditional tour of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s.

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Examples of Grand Tour in the following topics:

  • The Grand Tour and Its Portraits

    • The Grand Tour was a customary trip to Europe undertaken by wealthy Europeans and some Americans.
    • The Grand Tour was a customary trip to Europe undertaken by wealthy Europeans and some Americans that flourished as a tradition from about 1660 to 1840.
    • The pilgrimage was popularized further by the advent of tour guides, such as Thomas Cook, which became synonymous with the Grand Tour.
    • It became an absolute necessity for people of means to spend time in Rome as part of their "Grand Tour," or educational pilgrimage.
    • It became a symbol of wealth and freedom to go on the Grand Tour and to have something to show for it displayed in your home.A popular souvenir of the Grand Tour was a portrait of the tourist themselves, often painted amidst the architecture, or famous art works of a particular European location.

  • Rome

    • It became an absolute necessity for people of means to spend time in Rome as part of their "Grand Tour," or educational pilgrimage.
    • Artists including Pompeo Batoni and Giovanni Piranesi essentially based their entire careers upon catering to tourists.The increasing popularity of the Grand Tour, and the related desire for visitors to collect "classical" souvenirs, quickly spread the Neoclassical style throughout Europe.
    • It became a symbol of wealth and freedom to go on the Grand Tour and to have something to show for it displayed in your home.

  • Neoclassicism

    • With the increasing popularity of the Grand Tour, it became fashionable to collect antiquities as souvenirs.

  • Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

    • Projection methods such as grand tour, guided tour and manual tour

  • The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    • Excavations continued on and off over the next two centuries, and the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum became major tourists attractions for visiting royalty, members of the Grand Tour, and even tourists today.

  • Artistic Conventions in Painting

    • With the advent of the Grand Tour—a much enjoyed trip around Europe intended to introduce young men to the extended culture and people of their world—it became fashionable to collect antiquities as souvenirs.

  • Museums and Private Collections

    • The Grand Tour, which became very popular during this time, solidified the habit of collecting works for display from these trips abroad.

  • Painting

    • Postmodern painting rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction and eradicates the boundaries between high and low forms of art.
    • One compact definition is that postmodernism rejects modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, eradicating the boundaries between high and low forms of art, and disrupting genre's conventions with collision, collage, and fragmentation.
    • Clement Greenberg became the voice of Post-painterly abstraction by curating an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.

  • The Fifth Amendment

    • The right was asserted at grand jury or congressional hearings in the 1950s, when witnesses testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities or the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee claimed the right in response to questions concerning their alleged membership in the Communist Party.
    • No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
    • A grand jury investigating the fire that destroyed the Arcadia Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts in 1913.
    • The Fifth Amendment states that everyone deserves a Grand Jury in the case of a capital crime.

  • The Bill of Rights

    • In federal criminal cases, the Bill of Rights requires indictment by a grand jury for any capital or "infamous crime", guarantees a speedy, public trial with an impartial jury composed of members of the state or judicial district in which the crime occurred, and prohibits double jeopardy.
    • In 1991, the Bill of Rights toured the country in honor of its bicentennial, visiting the capitals of all fifty states.