Gerardo Tocchini discusses the intersection between politics, spectacle, and power in the eighteenth century and how this was exhibited through work of arts.Gerardo Tocchini is Full-Professor in Modern History at the Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice. His research area is the social history of early modern European culture from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. He is the author of I Fratelli d’Orfeo (1998); Minacciare con le immagini. Tintoretto (2010); La politica della rappresentazione (2012); Su Greuze e Rousseau (2016).