The Period Eye

Notes on Early Modern Visual Culture

December 31, 2020
by tlarkin
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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

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

December 30, 2016
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Political Portraiture in the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras, ca. 1776-1814. Part I

On 25-26 September 2014, twenty-four curators and professors from North America and Western Europe converged on the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., to discuss their current research on the theme of Political Portraiture in the United States and France during … Continue reading