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List of illustrations

  • View in Rome [Arch of Titus]
  • Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
  • General Andrew Jackson
  • Harriet Hosmer at work on statue of Senator Thomas Hart Benton
  • George Washington
  • The Roman Daughter
  • Zenobia in Chains
  • Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage
  • The Colosseum, Rome
  • Hail Caesar! We Who Are About to Die Salute You (Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant)
  • The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as Hercules, Leaves the Colosseum at the Head of the Gladiators
  • The Course of Empire: Consummation
  • Portrait of the Painter, with the Colosseum Behind
  • Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice Delancey)
  • Arch of Titus
  • Mrs. William Page
  • Roman Campagna
  • The Appian Way, Rome
  • Souvenir of Italy
  • Ancient Tomb at the Entrance of Albano
  • Pompey's Tomb
  • Tivoli
  • Torre di Schiavi
  • Torre di Schiavi
  • Roman Campagna
  • A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
  • Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill)
  • Harvesters on the Roman Campagna
  • Landscape Composition, Italian Scenery
  • The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
  • The Course of Empire: Desolation
  • L'Allegro
  • Dream of Arcadia
  • Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan
  • View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
  • River in the Catskills
  • Romantic Landscape
  • Italian Landscape
  • Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Italian Landscape
  • Italian Shepherd Boy
  • Italian Shepherd Boy
  • Faun in Repose
  • Barberini Villa, Italy [Villa Borghese, Rome?]
  • Italian Landscape
  • Pine Grove, Barberini Villa, Albano, Italy
  • Pines of the Villa Barberini
  • The Pines and the Olives ("The Monk")
  • Lake Nemi
  • In the Roman Campagna
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Evening among the Ruins
  • Interior of the Pantheon
  • Sacred and Profane Love
  • Julius Caesar
  • Demosthenes
  • Young Augustus
  • Capitoline Venus
  • Venus de' Medici
  • Venus de' Medici
  • Aphrodite of Cnidos (also known as the Venus of Knidos)
  • Venus of Urbino
  • Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis
  • Venus and Adonis
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Eros et Musa
  • Venus Arising from the Sea: A Deception (After the Bath)
  • Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos
  • Sleeping Ariadne
  • Venus as Shepherdess (after Thorwaldsen)
  • Venus Victrix
  • Venus Guiding Aeneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore
  • Omnia Vincit Amor
  • Love Captive (Love Bound to Wisdom)
  • Greek Slave
  • Eve Tempted
  • White Captive
  • Andromeda
  • Woman Triumphant
  • Venus Felix
  • Minerva Medica (Minerva Giustiniani)
  • Pudicitia (Livia)
  • Seated Agrippina
  • Lybian Sybil
  • Cleopatra
  • Medea
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Diana
  • Artemis, goddess of the hunt, known as Diane de Versailles
  • Proserpine
  • Clytie
  • Diana
  • Vénus à la Coquille (Nymph with a Shell)
  • Hero
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diane Enfant
  • Young Diana
  • Young Diana II
  • Infant Flora
  • Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana
  • William Rush and His Model
  • The Little Venetian Model
  • Roman Girls on the Seashore
  • Nude Girl Standing on a Pedestal
  • In the Beginning [verse 81, Rubaiat of Omar Kháyyam]
  • Rome, or the Art Idea
  • The Cup of Love
  • Love Ever Present, or Superest Invictus Amor, or Amor Omnia Vincit
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • Indian Chief
  • Apollino
  • Indian and Panther
  • Indian Hunter
  • The Sun Vow
  • Actaeon
  • Indian Hunter
  • Pronghorn Antelope
  • Indian Hunter with Dog
  • Hiawatha
  • The Sleeping Faun
  • Barberini Sleeping Faun
  • The Walking Faun
  • Endymion
  • The Awakening of Endymion
  • Dead Pearl Diver
  • Arcadian Shepherd Boy
  • The Fisher Boy
  • Hebe and Ganymede
  • Swimming
  • Salutat
  • Hermes
  • Leander
  • Dionysus
  • Farnese Hercules
  • Dying Hercules
  • Laocoön
  • The Rescue Group
  • The Dying Gladiator
  • The Indian: The Dying Chief Contemplating the Progress of Civilization
  • Belvedere Torso
  • The Freedman
  • Falling Gladiator
  • Dying Centaur
  • Evening: The Fall of Day
  • George Washington
  • Orpheus
  • Young Marsyas Charming the Hares
  • Orpheus
  • Orpheus
  • The Young Sophocles
  • The Scraper (Athlete Using Strigil)
  • Orpheus and the Defenders of Baltimore: Francis Scott Key Monument
  • Apollo and the Nine Muses (rotunda decoration)
  • Classic and Romantic Art
  • Tradition
  • East pediment sculpture
  • Europa and the Bull
  • Europa and the Bull
  • Voyage to Crete
  • Mars and Venus
  • Mars and Venus
  • Venus and Adonis
  • The Three Graces
  • Judgment of Paris I
  • Diana and Callisto
  • Europa and the Bull
  • From the Metamorphoses
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Contents
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Although some Americans preferred to live in Florence or (later) Venice, Rome offered by far the richest repository of historical suggestion and the most provocative stimuli to creative representation. Indeed, in all the ways that Americans were obliged to confront the fact of Europe in the shaping of their own identity ...
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In the winter of 1864, when the final battles of the Civil War were being fought and the assassination of President Lincoln was only a few months in the future, a young man from Ohio stood among the ruins of the ancient Roman Forum ...
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~This is one of many juxtapositions in nineteenth-century American literature and painting of a representative American character and a classical architectural image, of which the Colosseum is by far the most commonly chosen. The Colosseum had by this time a complex...
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In the spring of 1833 America’s first “foreign correspondent” stood on the “lofty turrets” of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella and saw before him the original of “one of the finest landscapes ever painted” ...
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They are specifically given the pathos and the dignity of figures on a Dionysian relief. Then Hawthorne allows Miriam to identify their act with that “high deed” of Brutus, as they pass Pompey’s Forum where Caesar was slain. The deliberate and rational are joined with the instinctive and passionate—the extremes of human nature embodied in the ancient gods.
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John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...
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