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Monument to Grand Duke Ferdinand (Pietro Tacca, Monument of the Four Moors)

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Description: Monument to Grand Duke Ferdinand (Pietro Tacca, Monument of the Four Moors)

TitleMonument to Grand Duke Ferdinand (Pietro Tacca, Monument of the Four Moors)

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1800–1900

Creation date (description)Original monument dates to 1620

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph

LocationCollection of the author

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSlavery in art

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Chapter 2: Exposing Slavery

Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)

WHEN ARTISTS after the Civil War faced the great challenge of representing a society recently emancipated from slavery, they brought to the task various assumptions and images that had been deeply ingrained by the system of slavery and by the long campaign to abolish it. Most of the artists working on public monuments in the first years after the war had...

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.21-51

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Chapter subject tags:Slavery--HistoryUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Abolitionists--United StatesPowers, Hiram, 1805-1873. Greek slaveBrown, Henry Kirke, 1814-1886Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centurySoldiers' monuments--Southern StatesSculpture, American--19th centuryRacism in art--United States--19th century

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