Calibrate Your Eyes to Recognize High-Dimensional Shapes from Their Low-Dimensional Projections by Dianne Cook

“…This paper provides a suite of datasets from standard multivariate distributions and simple high-dimensional geomtric shapes that can be used to visually calibrate new users of grand tours. It contains animations of 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, 4-D and 5-D grand tours, links to starting XGobi or XLispStat on the calibration data sets, and C code for generating a grand tour. …”
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The Dissemination of Archaeology and the Archaeological Heritage of Andalusia Through Illustrated travel Literature La difusión de la arqueología y del patrimonio arqueológico de A... by Jesús SALAS ÁLVAREZ

“…Although the Iberian Peninsula was off the circuits of the Grand Tour, Andalusia was especially attractive for the British, French and Moslem travellers who crossed its lands, admiring its rich historical Roman and Islamic past, which was described in their travel writings. …”
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Viaggio tra i paesaggi della Sicilia. I workshop di Progettazione Architettonica / Travel through the landscapes of Sicily. Architectural design workshop experience by Adriana Sarro

“…La Sicilia e il suo territorio, meta dei viaggiatori arabi e successivamente dei viaggiatori del Grand Tour tra il ‘700 e ‘800 e architetti degli anni ‘20, interessati sempre alla conoscenza del suo paesaggio, è stata attraversata negli ultimi anni, da studenti e docenti, che hanno partecipato ai numerosi workshop e simposi interessati alla conoscenza dei luoghi della città e del paesaggio, dove potere presentare un progetto di trasformazione. …”
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Fragmenty písemností z kavalírské cesty hrabat z Clary-Aldringenu z roku 1727 by Jiří Kubeš

“…Recent literature has come to the conclusion that deep changes in grand tour (Kavalierstour) of young nobles passed in 1720s and 1730s. …”
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The Circle of Saavedra: friendship, power and lobby at the end of the eighteenth century in Spain, 1783-1799 | El Círculo de Saavedra: amistad, lobby y poder de los venezolanos a f... by Alejandro Cardozo Uzcátegui

“…Will this circle at the Spanish Court a powerful lobby of Venezuelan, making his Grand Tour. | Francisco de Saavedra fue el segundo intendente de Venezuela en la década de los ochenta del siglo XVIII. …”
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Il viaggio come esperienza di formazione. Tra diacronia e sincronia by Franco Cambi

“…It has advanced and it’s complicated, according to different models (pilgrimage, Grand Tour, touristic trip) and showing the complexity of his social and cultural role: also and above all educational.…”
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Identità by Paolo Zermani

“… In the 1983 film Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky shows the main actors (Gorchakov, a Russian intellectual looking for the trail of an ancestor of his, a musician, and the young Eugenia, an interpreter accompanying him) in a Grand Tour searching for truth in Italy’s time and space. …”
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La nascita di un’industria ospitale europea nel XVIII secolo: locande, stazioni di posta, grandi alberghi e città turistiche by Fabiana Susini

“…During the 18th century there was in Europe a sort of ‘internationalization’ of the forms of paid accommodation buildings in terms of features and services offered, following the exponential growth of the number of travelers, especially aristocrats, on the wave of the phenomenon of the Grand Tour. This article analyzes the hospitality forms in the Old Continent, demonstrating how they are closely linked to an evolution of the historical, economic and cultural nature of society that took place during the eighteenth century.…”
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The Dissemination of Archaeology and the Archaeological Heritage of Andalusia Through Illustrated travel Literature by Jesús SALAS ÁLVAREZ

“…Although the Iberian Peninsula was off the circuits of the Grand Tour, Andalusia was especially attractive for the British, French and Moslem travellers who crossed its lands, admiring its rich historical Roman and Islamic past, which was described in their travel writings. …”
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La vue topographique en France au xviiie siècle : éclat et mésestime d’un genre by Émilie Beck-Saiello

“…Views or vedutes, a subgenre of landscape painting, were extremely popular in eighteenth-century Europe, especially within the context of the Grand Tour. However, vedutes seem to have been a neglected genre in France, even though French landscape painting had flourished since the seventeenth century with such renowned painters as Joseph Vernet and Hubert Robert. …”
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L’Italie post-romantique : entre arts, histoire et ethnologie. Trois postures et constructions d’identité : Flaubert, Du Camp et Colet by Thierry Poyet

“…The fashion for the ‘Grand Tour’ had made Italy a privileged destination. …”
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On the Privilege of Being a Diversity Scholar and How We Choose to Use It by Keren Dali

“…Editorials will also present a grand-tour of the respective issues.…”
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Mapy Sienkiewicza by Ireneusz Gielata

“…Perpektywa uświęconego wielowiekową tradycją Grand Tour zastąpiona zostaje tu jednak doświadczeniem maladycznym. …”
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L’“umile Italia” di Guido Ceronetti: alcune considerazioni sui paesaggi visibili ed invisibili di Un viaggio in Italia / Guido Ceronetti's "Humilis Italia": Remarks on the Visible... by Cristiano Bedin

“…In epoca contemporanea il tema del “viaggio in Italia”, meta irrinunciabile del Grand Tour settecentesco, viene usato come espediente per sottolineare la decadenza della bellezza dell’Italia provocata dalla progressiva industrializzazione. …”
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BARETTI DAL “CAFFÈ” AL “CONCILIATORE” by Gianmarco Gaspari

“…Moreover, the Italian version of the Account, which included texts that were fundamental in the definition of the Italian “character”, from Madame de Staël’s Corinne to Sismondi’s Histoire, played a significant role in challenging the rashest stereotypes attributed to Italy by the protagonists of the Grand Tour.…”
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La villégiature anglaise et l’invention de la Côte d’Azur by Alain Bottaro

“…Between 1760 and 1860, the coast of eastern Provence and of the region of Nice (like other areas outside Europe) was “discovered” by foreign travelers on the Grand Tour who gazed at the unsullied nature of the Mediterranean and perceived it as another Garden of Eden. …”
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AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT / by Gay, Peter, 1923-2015, author 347179, The Editors of Life-Time Books 9563

The Sicily of the Voyage Pittoresque, with a Quick (and Very "Personal") Gaze at the Travel Literature by Marco Rosario Nobile

“…Travel literature does not constitute an objective source: neither the images nor the texts escape the clichés of the time in which they were written. In the age of the Grand Tour, western culture appropriated the history of Sicily and the South, andit did so by selecting and distorting data and information. …”
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<i>Son</i>: Part One by Jennifer Higgie

“…Two Englishman set out on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. One is a young, gifted artist; the other a Gentleman. …”
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<i>Son</i>: Part One by Jennifer Higgie

“…Two Englishman set out on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. One is a young, gifted artist; the other a Gentleman. …”
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