Republics and Empires

Melissa Dabakis is Professor Emerita of Art History at Kenyon CollegePaul H. D. Kaplan is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, State University of New York

• Introduction – Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. KaplanPart I: Hybrid republicanisms1 Past glories, present miseries: nationality, politics, and art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home – Leonardo Buonomo2 ‘Vivat Republica’: Washington, D.C. and Rome in early photographic archives – Lindsay Harris3 Thomas Nast and Giuseppe Garibaldi: the ‘Special Artist’ and the ‘Italian Washington’ – Melissa Dabakis4 Monuments to tyranny: issues of race and power in nineteenth-century American responses to early modern Italian public sculpture – Paul H. D. Kaplan5 The picturesque political: Charles Caryl Coleman and Elihu Vedder in the circle of the Macchiaioli – Adrienne Baxter Bell6 William Wetmore Story, Walt Whitman, and Enrico Nencioni: a node in the web of transatlantic ‘traffic’ in the second half of the nineteenth century – Marina Camboni7 The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Victoria Woodhull, Salvatore Morelli and feminist social reform in Italy and America – Maria Saveria RugaPart II: The courses of empire8 Seeing America’s tangled threads in John Singer Sargent’s Street in Venice – Jane Dini9 Francesco Pezzicar’s L’Abolizione della schiavitù across empires – Caitlin Meehye Beach10 A transatlantic cultural landscape: America in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century – Daniele Fiorentino11 New Deal murals and the myth of the Renaissance – Sergio Cortesini12 Eterna primavera: Catherine Viviano, Irene Brin and Italian art’s conquest of Hollywood – Raffaele Bedarida13 Sculpture in the (ancient) city: Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy – Marin R. Sullivan14 Paul Thek and the muses of Italy: death, decay, and the Technological reliquaries, 1963–67 – Erika DossIndex