The Meeting of Pope Pius VI and Doge Paolo Renier at San Giorgio in Alga, 1782, Francesco Guardi. Courtesy of Guido Bartolozzi Antichita' SRL

From Public Spectacle to Public Sphere: New Anthropologies of the Enlightenment

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Larry Wolff, professor of history at New York University, considers how the baroque public spectacle—so essential to the rituals of the court and the church—began to give way in the eighteenth century to more informal and participatory forms of sociability and discussion, as reflected in eighteenth-century paintings of public occasions.

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