The Period Eye

Notes on Early Modern Visual Culture

October 27, 2021
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The U.S. Congress’s Portraits

Monograph release: Summer 2021 What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress’s Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette?  Retracing the Events that Led to the Conflagration of the Capitol and the Loss of the Pictures on 24-25 August 1814 is a … 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