9:30 a.m., Welcome Stephanie Stebich, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum 9:45 a.m., Introduction Melissa Dabakis, Professor and Chair of Art History, Kenyon College 10:00 a.m. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Thomas Cole’s Travels from Rome to Catskill: Republican Ideals” 10:30 a.m. Caitlin Beach, PhD Candidate, Columbia University, and Wyeth Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, “Francesco Pezzicar’s L’Abolizione della schiavitù in America across Empires” 11:00 a.m. Jane Dini, Independent Scholar, “Sargent’s and Duveneck’s Working-Class Venetian Muses” 11:30 a.m. Daniele Fiorentino, Professor of U.S. History and Political Science, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, “A Transatlantic Cultural Landscape: America in Rome at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century” 12:00 p.m., Question and Answer Session Moderator: Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History, Purchase College, SUNY This symposium examines the persistent fascination of American and Italian artists with the cultural achievements of ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Scholars seek to update and broaden our understanding of American-Italian cultural relations from the Revolutionary Era through the Cold War by encompassing a diversity of international voices and approaches.
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2 hr 55 min 54 sec
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