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"...[I]f Redford is no lyricist, there is no denying his scholarship. His book contains a rich anthology of quotations from dozens of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Grand Tourists, and from contemporary commentators, and he is very good on the urges that lay behind the Tour....He also considers with a new freshness the artistic effects of the whole enterprise, the blending of styles that sprang from it and the wonderfully revealing portraiture that it engendered. Bruce Redford...is also a perceptive writer about art."Professor Bruce Redford is the author of 'Venice and the Grand Tour', published 1996 under ISBN 9780300069112 and ISBN 0300069111.
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