![]() ![]() Not that photography per se was Girault de Prangey’s goal for him, taking a picture constituted merely an early step in the creation of a drawing or painting. This project “took him from Italy to Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and the Levant, he captured over 1,000 photographs, with subjects ranging from streetscapes and architectural details to nature and landscapes and portraits of local people.” So says the narrator of the Kings and Things video above, which tells the story of how Girault de Prange managed to leave us the earliest known photographs of a large swath of the world. But he was an aristocrat, the sole inheritor of his family fortune, and thus able to “devote his life to his passions: travel, arts, and publishing.” Having already traveled extensively and received an education in both art and law, he was hardly a callow youth in need of refinement. Girault de Prangey went on his first photographic “Grand Tour” in 1841, when he was in his late thirties. By the time that book was published in 1869, the Grand Tour was out of high fashion - but a couple of decades earlier, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey had preserved many of its destinations with a piece of cutting-edge technology known as the camera. Naturally, most Grand Tour itineraries placed the utmost importance on Italy and Greece some even went to the Holy Land, as satirized by Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad. Lasting anything from few a months to a few years, such trips were meant directly to expose their young takers to the legacy of the Renaissance and antiquity. Registration is simple, fast and free! Click here to register today.Beginning in the late seventeenth century, aristocratic Englishmen or continental Europeans came of age and went on a Grand Tour. Registering so you can gain full use of the forum features and interact with other Members. You are currently viewing the forum as a guest, which means you are missing out on discussing matters that are of interest to you. ![]() Welcome to the International Skeptics Forum, where we discuss skepticism, critical thinking, the paranormal and science in a friendly but lively way. Movies, TV, Music, Computer Gaming, and other Entertainment Science, Mathematics, Medicine and Technology ![]()
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