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Description: Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

TitleAgrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Creator nameWest, Benjamin

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1766

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions64 1/2 × 94 1/2 in. (163.8 × 240 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/46131

Accession number1947.16

SubjectsHistory, Ancient, in artEmperors in artPainting, American--18th century

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Chapter 5: Exhibitions of Sympathy

David H. Solkin

Description: Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century...

Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England

By the middle decades of the eighteenth century, it had become patently obvious that the public sphere in Britain had lost any credible resemblance to a classical republic of active and like-minded citizens...

Author

David H. Solkin

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.157-213

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Chapter subject tags:England--Social life and customs--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryHumanitarianism--Britain--18th centuryFoundling Hospital (London, England)Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776Painting, British--18th centuryShaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713History painting, British--18th centuryWest, Benjamin, 1738-1820

I. Neoclassicism: Some Problems of Definition

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~IN HISTORIES of painting, the most familiar demonstration of that new mid eighteenth...

Author

Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.3-49

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.1

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809Flaxman, John, 1755-1826Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822Painting, British--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807

1. The Forum: History’s Largest Page

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

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 ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-42

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.006

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Chapter subject tags:Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesPainting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeAmerican literature--19th centuryRome--HistoryWest, Benjamin, 1738-1820Sculpture, American--19th centuryVanderlyn, John, 1775-1852Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Rome (Italy)--In literature

2. Bingham’s Boone

David M. Lubin

Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America

~~Before we, too, abandon Ariadne on her desert isle, let us pause to consider her as the foundation of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. The future wife of Bacchus, nature god of wine and revelry, Ariadne, in all her sumptuous availability, is the trope of bountiful America ready for the taking. Such availability, in...

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David M. Lubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.55-105

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.005

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Chapter subject tags:Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820American frontierCumberland Gap (Ky. And Va.)Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879Missouri River

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