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TitleDying Hercules

Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1812

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions96 1/4 × 78 1/8 in. (244.5 × 198.4 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/224

Accession number1866.3

SubjectsMale nude in artDeath in artGods, Greek, in artPainting, American--19th centuryMythology, Greek, in art

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The Forest of the Old Masters: The Chiaroscuro of American Places

Alexander Nemerov

Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention

~WHY IS IT that certain American places have the emotional intensity of old master paintings? The American places I have in mind do not literally look like paintings by Rembrandt, but they sometimes have the gravity and pathos, the infinite depth and unaccountable lightness, of...

Author

Alexander Nemerov

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.169-182

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00223.011

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Chapter subject tags:Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872. Gallery of the LouvrePainting, BaroqueChiaroscuroCooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851Weir, John F. (John Ferguson), 1841-1926

6. The Sublime as Spectacle: The Transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House

Martin Myrone

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836

THE OPENING OF THE NEW ROYAL ACADEMY at Somerset House in 1780 can be seen as a moment of triumph for officially ordained high culture in Britain. With its exuberant and sophisticated use of the classical orders, the building itself constituted an exultant proclamation of the Academy’s privileged relationship with the elevated cultural traditions of ancient Greece and Rome,...

Author

Martin Myrone

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.77-91

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00023.012

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Chapter subject tags:Art, British--Exhibitions--18th centuryArt criticism--England--18th centuryRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Somerset House (London, England)Art and society--Britain--History--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Painting, British--18th centuryHistory painting, British--18th centuryFuseli, Henry, 1741-1825Sculpture, British--18th century

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

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 ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

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Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

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