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Manoguerra, Paul. "Classic Ground: American Paintings and the Italian Encounter, 1848-1860," Michigan State University, May 2002.
As a result of their mid-nineteenth century Italian travels within the “Grand Tour,“ Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Robinson Gifford, George Loring Brown, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and other American painters created a body of work featuring Italian landscapes, people, buildings and life. By employing material culture methods, I situate several American paintings with Italian subject matter within the context of politics, gender, ideology, religion, and high and low culture. I also look at the reception of these images within artistic institutions, in the United States art market and among patrons, and against the backdrop of the social and cultural climate of late antebellum America to expose the layered meanings within each work.
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