Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
William L. Vance
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This remarkable book is one of a two-volume set that examines the impact of Rome on American artists and writers from the earliest days of the new republic. William L. Vance presents examples of American painting, sculpture, and writings of many different kinds (novels, poetry, travel books, letters, cultural commentary, journalism) that have been inspired by American encounters with Roman places and people over the course of two centuries.

Volume I focuses on the influence of classical Rome, showing how the Forum and the Colosseum inspired American thoughts of ideal republics and powerful empires, how the Campagna was an ambiguous image of Arcadia or wasteland in the aftermath of empire, and how the Pantheon and the galleries of antique sculpture presented a pagan challenge to American ideas of divinity, beauty, and sexuality.
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Print publication date September 1989 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9789998004733
EISBN 9780300243925
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Illustrations 173
Print Status out of print
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List of illustrations

  • View in Rome [Arch of Titus]
  • Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
  • General Andrew Jackson
  • Harriet Hosmer at work in her Roman studio on statue of Senator Thomas Hart Benton for St. Louis
  • George Washington
  • The Roman Daughter
  • Zenobia in Chains
  • Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage
  • The Colosseum, Rome
  • Hail Caesar! We Who Are About to Die Salute You (Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant)
  • The Emperor Commodus, Dressed as Hercules, Leaves the Colosseum at the Head of the Gladiators
  • The Course of Empire: The Consummation
  • Portrait of the Painter, with the Colosseum Behind
  • Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard
  • Arch of Titus
  • Mrs. William Page
  • Roman Campagna
  • The Appian Way, Rome
  • Souvenir of Italy
  • Ancient Tomb at the Entrance of Albano
  • Pompey's Tomb
  • Tivoli
  • Torre di Schiavi
  • Torre di Schiavi
  • Roman Campagna
  • A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct
  • Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill)
  • Harvesters on the Roman Campagna
  • Landscape Composition, Italian Scenery
  • The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
  • The Course of Empire: Desolation
  • L'Allegro
  • Dream of Arcadia
  • Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan
  • View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
  • River in the Catskills
  • Romantic Landscape
  • Italian Landscape
  • Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Italian Landscape
  • Italian Shepherd Boy
  • Italian Shepherd Boy
  • Faun in Repose
  • Barberini Villa, Italy [Villa Borghese, Rome?]
  • Italian Landscape
  • Pine Grove, Barberini Villa, Albano, Italy
  • Pines of the Villa Barberini
  • The Pines and the Olives ("The Monk")
  • Lake Nemi
  • In the Roman Campagna
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Et in Arcadia Ego
  • Evening among the Ruins
  • Sacred and Profane Love
  • Julius Caesar
  • Demosthenes
  • Young Augustus
  • Capitoline Venus
  • Venus de' Medici
  • Venus de' Medici
  • Knidian Venus after Praxiteles
  • Venus of Urbino
  • Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis
  • Venus and Adonis
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Eros et Musa
  • Venus Arising from the Sea: A Deception (After the Bath)
  • Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos
  • Sleeping Ariadne
  • Venus as Shepherdess (after Thorwaldsen)
  • Venus Victrix
  • Venus Guiding Aeneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore
  • Omnia Vincit Amor
  • Love Captive (Love Bound to Wisdom)
  • Greek Slave
  • Eve Tempted
  • White Captive
  • Andromeda
  • Woman Triumphant
  • Venus Felix
  • Minerva Medica (Minerva Giustiniani)
  • Pudicitia (Livia)
  • Seated Agrippina
  • Lybian Sybil
  • Cleopatra
  • Medea
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Diana
  • Diane Chasseresse
  • Proserpine
  • Clytie
  • Diana
  • Vénus à la Coquille (Nymph with a Shell)
  • Hero
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diana
  • Diane Enfant
  • Young Diana
  • Young Diana II
  • Infant Flora
  • Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana
  • William Rush and His Model
  • The Little Venetian Model
  • Roman Girls on the Seashore
  • Nude Girl Standing on a Pedestal
  • In the Beginning [verse 81, Rubaiat of Omar Kháyyam]
  • Rome, or the Art Idea
  • The Cup of Love
  • Love Ever Present, or Superest Invictus Amor, or Amor Omnia Vincit
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • Indian Chief
  • Apollino
  • Indian and Panther
  • Indian Hunter
  • Actaeon
  • Indian Hunter
  • Pronghorn Antelope
  • Indian Hunter with Dog
  • Hiawatha
  • The Sleeping Faun
  • Barberini Sleeping Faun
  • The Walking Faun
  • Endymion
  • The Awakening of Endymion
  • Dead Pearl Diver
  • Arcadian Shepherd Boy
  • The Fisher Boy
  • Hebe and Ganymede
  • Swimming
  • Salutat
  • Belvedere Antinous (Meleager, Mercury)
  • Leander
  • Dionysus
  • Farnese Hercules
  • The Dying Hercules
  • Laocoön
  • The Rescue Group
  • The Dying Gladiator
  • The Dying Indian Chief Contemplating the Progress of Civilization
  • Belvedere Torso
  • The Freedman
  • Falling Gladiator
  • Dying Centaur
  • Evening: The Fall of Day
  • George Washington
  • Orpheus
  • Young Marsyas Charming the Hares
  • Orpheus
  • Orpheus
  • The Young Sophocles
  • The Scraper (Athlete Using Strigil)
  • Orpheus and the Defenders of Baltimore: Francis Scott Key Monument
  • Apollo and the Nine Muses (rotunda decoration)
  • Cllassic and Romantic Art (rotunda decoration)
  • Tradition
  • East pediment sculpture
  • Europa and the Bull
  • Europa and the Bull
  • Voyage to Crete
  • Mars and Venus
  • Mars and Venus
  • Venus and Adonis
  • The Three Graces
  • Judgment of Paris I
  • Diana and Callisto
  • Europa and the Bull
  • From the Metamorphoses
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Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
Preface
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
Although some Americans preferred to live in Florence or (later) Venice, Rome offered by far the richest repository of historical suggestion and the most provocative stimuli to creative representation. Indeed, in all the ways that Americans were obliged to confront the fact of Europe in the shaping of their own identity ...
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
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Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
1. The Forum: History’s Largest Page
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
In the winter of 1864, when the final battles of the Civil War were being fought and the assassination of President Lincoln was only a few months in the future, a young man from Ohio stood among the ruins of the ancient Roman Forum ...
Author
William L. Vance
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Subjects: Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesArt and historyArt, AmericanRome--In art

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Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
2. The Colosseum: Ambiguities of Empire
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
~This is one of many juxtapositions in nineteenth-century American literature and painting of a representative American character and a classical architectural image, of which the Colosseum is by far the most commonly chosen. The Colosseum had by this time a complex...
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Subjects: Colosseum (Rome, Italy)United States--Civilization--Roman influencesArt and historyArt, American--19th centuryRome--In art

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3. Reading the Campagna: “Silence Made Visible”
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
In the spring of 1833 America’s first “foreign correspondent” stood on the “lofty turrets” of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella and saw before him the original of “one of the finest landscapes ever painted” ...
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Subjects: Campagna di Roma (Italy)Arcadia in artArt, American--19th centuryArcadia in literatureLandscape painting

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Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
4. The Pantheon: The Gods in Twilight
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
They are specifically given the pathos and the dignity of figures on a Dionysian relief. Then Hawthorne allows Miriam to identify their act with that “high deed” of Brutus, as they pass Pompey’s Forum where Caesar was slain. The deliberate and rational are joined with the instinctive and passionate—the extremes of human nature embodied in the ancient gods.
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Subjects: Temples, RomanGods, RomanAmerican literature--19th centuryTranscendentalists (New England)Art and mythology

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Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty
William L. Vance
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...
Author
William L. Vance
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Subjects: Sculpture, RomanGods, Roman, in artArt, American--19th centuryArt criticism--HistoryNude in art

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