Grand Tourist Abroad

Grand Tour become a common practice in seventeenth to eighteenth century Europe.A great number of British noble disciples as the major Grand Tourists went to European continent to start their journey.Grand Tour has become one of the most important education program for the nobilities since then.Grand Tour as education,aims at forming a good taste for art and antique.Take the Grand Tourist James Russel as a typical case of travelling through continent and resides in Italy,which reveals the general situation of the eighteenth century's Grand Tour and the life of the Grand Tourists.James Russel played different roles in his journey,as a painter,an antiquarian,an agent,a cicerone,which leads to a better understanding of how Grand Tourists make a living and develop their own career with the help from their relationship with the circle.By analyzing the activities conducted by the Grand Tourists,helps us to understand how the taste of art and antique influenced and spread out through the whole Europe.In addition,the present writer intends to decipher how the taste of the unique group of Grand Tourists affected the evolution of the European art history.