The Period Eye

Notes on Early Modern Visual Culture

December 31, 2020
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Politics & Portraits

Anthology release: Spring 2019 Politics & Portraits in the United States & France during the Age of Revolution is an anthology of essays prepared by portrait scholars from the United States, Canada, France, and Germany and published by the Smithsonian … Continue reading

December 30, 2020
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Baroque Impressions

Catalog release: December 2018; revised ed. August 2019 Now available on amazon.com Baroque Impressions: Reproductive Engravings after Rubens and Van Dyck Paintings ca. 1620-1860 is a catalog published by the School of Art to accompany the ground-breaking exhibition that was … Continue reading

January 4, 2017
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Political Portraiture in the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras, ca. 1776-1814. Part II

This column serves as the second of a pair of reflections on portrait exchange between the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras, ca. 1776-1814. II. Representative Bodies Assemblies and families in the United States and France … Continue reading