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Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Catherine Roach
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Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre is one of the most significant, and enigmatic,works of early 19th-century American art. It isalso one of the last works Morse painted before turninghis attention to the invention of the telegraph andMorse code.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /-->





A signature painting in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Gallery of the Louvre underwent an extensive conservation treatment in 2010–11 and was the focus of three symposia held at the Yale University Art Gallery , the National Gallery of Art , and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . This collection of essays, carefully drawn from the proceedings of these scholarly sessions, brings together the fresh insights of academics, curators, and conservators, who focus on the painting’s visual components and its cultural contexts. The book accompanies a multi-year tour of the painting to prominent museums across the country.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Other Distribution
Release
October 28, 2014
ISBN
0300207611
ISBN 13
9780300207613

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Catherine Roach
3.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Insightful essays that offer a wide-ranging examination of a 19th-century American masterpiece
Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre is one of the most significant, and enigmatic,works of early 19th-century American art. It isalso one of the last works Morse painted before turninghis attention to the invention of the telegraph andMorse code.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /-->





A signature painting in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, Gallery of the Louvre underwent an extensive conservation treatment in 2010–11 and was the focus of three symposia held at the Yale University Art Gallery , the National Gallery of Art , and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . This collection of essays, carefully drawn from the proceedings of these scholarly sessions, brings together the fresh insights of academics, curators, and conservators, who focus on the painting’s visual components and its cultural contexts. The book accompanies a multi-year tour of the painting to prominent museums across the country.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Other Distribution
Release
October 28, 2014
ISBN
0300207611
ISBN 13
9780300207613

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