|
Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein
* Johann Friedrich ReiffensteinAlso spelled Reifstein and Reffenstein(born 22 November 1719, Ragnit, – died 6 October 1793, Rome) was a German cicerone for grand tour The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tu ...ists, painter, antiquarian and agent for art collectors in Rome. References * C. Frank, in ''Figure Humaine et Architecture. Dessins di XVIIIe au Xe Siècle'', Rome, Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C., 2017, pp. 18–19, Reffenstein, Pastel portrait of a lady. * B. von Götz-Mohr, ''»Amico Optimo« Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach (1754-1823), Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719-1793) und die Antikesammlungen in Erbach im Odenwald'', in ''Das Modell in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Festschrift für Herbert Beck'', Petersberg, Michael Imhof V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719–1793), By Angelica Kauffmann
Johann Friedrich ReiffensteinAlso spelled Reifstein and Reffenstein(born 22 November 1719, Ragnit, – died 6 October 1793, Rome) was a German cicerone for grand tourists, painter, antiquarian and agent for art collectors in Rome. References * C. Frank, in ''Figure Humaine et Architecture. Dessins di XVIIIe au Xe Siècle'', Rome, Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C., 2017, pp. 18–19, Reffenstein, Pastel portrait of a lady. * B. von Götz-Mohr, ''»Amico Optimo« Franz Graf zu Erbach-Erbach (1754-1823), Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (1719-1793) und die Antikesammlungen in Erbach im Odenwald'', in ''Das Modell in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Festschrift für Herbert Beck'', Petersberg, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006. 1719 births 1793 deaths People from Neman, Russia Artists from East Prussia German classical scholars 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters German antiquarians German male non-fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neman (town)
Neman (russian: Не́ман; german: Ragnit; lt, Ragainė; pl, Ragneta), is a town and the administrative center of Nemansky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located in the historic region of Lithuania Minor, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it forms the Russian border with the Klaipėda Region in Lithuania, and northeast of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast. Population figures: History ''Ragnita'' (from Old Prussian: ''ragas'', "spur"), founded in 1288, was a settlement of the Baltic (Old Prussian) tribe of Skalvians. It was contested by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since its creation in the 13th century, and on April 23, 1289 it was conquered by the Teutonic Knights, who built a castle there between 1397 and 1409, which later became the seat of a ''Komtur''. Construction works were supervised by the Master of the Teutonic Order Konrad Fellenstein of Marienburg. A few decades later, a now-destroyed 25 meter guard tower wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicerone
Cicerone ( ) is an old term for a guide who conducts visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest. The word is presumably taken from Marcus Tullius Cicero, as a type of learning and eloquence. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' finds recorded examples of the use earlier in English than Italian, the earliest quotation being from Joseph Addison's ''Dialogue on Medals'' (published posthumously 1726). It appears that the word was first applied to learned antiquarians who showed and explained to foreigners the antiquities and curiosities of the country (quotation of 1762 in the ''New English Dictionary''). "The Cicerones", a short story by Robert Aickman (turned into a 2002 short film), uses the idea of cicerones as people who conduct visitors and sightseers as a metaphor in a tale about a man who is guided to his doom by various characters in a cathedral. In his travel book William Lithgow ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
