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Scenes from the Scio Massacres

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Description: Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
A fascination with female victimization dominated American ideal sculpture in the mid–nineteenth century, most notably in such captivity subjects as The Greek Slave, but also in a variety of works that represented women in peril.Randolph...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.101-140
Description: Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France
~Girodet died in 1824, at the age of fifty-seven, from a tumor of the bladder. The onset of his final crisis was sudden; it came so quickly that the painter was...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.217-245
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00330.10
Description: The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting
~~After playing a role in visualizing the French Revolution, color was subject to its own upheaval in the nineteenth century, first in materials, then in making. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, chemistry had replaced alchemy. Building on the classification of the elements and using modern experimental scientific methods,...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.187-227
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.006
Description: Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
He lies face down. His long and vulnerable neck is stretched out taut like his extended arm but, unlike his limb, it is bluntly ruptured by a mass of dark hair...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.237-279
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00220.006

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