Printmaking in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1735-1799)

我的项目集中在十八世纪那不勒斯的版画。在1735年，经过近两个世纪的西班牙自治领，两个西西里岛（今天的南意大利）成为一个独立的国家和新的法国国王了解版画的潜力，将那不勒斯转变为一个现代化的欧洲首都。他创办了一家皇家出版社--斯坦佩里亚皇家出版社，并赞助当地艺术家在欧洲大陆的印刷厂学习。然而，尽管引进了技术和技能，那不勒斯本地人的版画与外国人的版画有着巨大的差异，这表明那不勒斯与版画的问题关系有着更深的文化根源。我将分析Stamperia Reale和独立的当地出版社的作品，如Stamperia Raimondiana或Hackert和Terres兄弟的企业。为此，我将在那不勒斯的档案和收藏品中进行广泛的研究，将物质对象的研究与以理论为基础的方法结合起来，这是伦敦大学学院的特点。通过这个项目，我不仅将复杂化和扩大版画作为现代性发展的核心要素的主导叙述，而且还将阐明欧洲国家之间文化关系的鲜为人知的作用，拓宽了我们对启蒙运动的理解

My project focuses on printmaking in eighteenth-century Naples. In 1735, after almost two centuries of Spanish dominion, the two Sicilies (today Southern Italy) became an independent nation and the new French king understood the potential of printmaking for transforming Naples into a modern European capital. He founded a royal publishing house, the Stamperia Reale, and sponsored local artists to study in printing shops on the continent. Despite this importation of technologies and skill, however, prints produced in Naples by locals differed enormously from prints produced in Naples by foreigners, suggesting that the city's problematic relationship with printmaking had deeper cultural roots.I will analyse the output of both the Stamperia Reale and independent local publishing houses, such as the Stamperia Raimondiana or the businesses of the Hackert and Terres brothers. To do so I will carry out extensive research in archives and collections in Naples, bringing together the study of material objects with the theory-based approach that characterises UCL.With this project I will not only complicate and expand dominant narratives of printmaking as a central element in the development of modernity, but also shed light on the little-examined play of cultural relationships between European countries, broadening our understanding of the Enlightenment.