Republics and Empires

Introduction - Melissa Dabakis and Paul H. D. Kaplan
Part I: Hybrid republicanisms
1 Past glories, present miseries: nationality, politics, and art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home - Leonardo Buonomo
2 'Vivat Republica': Washington, D.C. and Rome in early photographic archives - Lindsay Harris
3 Thomas Nast and Giuseppe Garibaldi: the 'Special Artist' and the 'Italian Washington' - Melissa Dabakis
4 Monuments to tyranny: issues of race and power in nineteenth-century American responses to early modern Italian public sculpture - Paul H. D. Kaplan
5 The picturesque political: Charles Caryl Coleman and Elihu Vedder in the circle of the Macchiaioli - Adrienne Baxter Bell
6 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 Camboni
7 The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Victoria Woodhull, Salvatore Morelli and feminist social reform in Italy and America - Maria Saveria Ruga
Part II: The courses of empire
8 Seeing America's tangled threads in John Singer Sargent's Street in Venice - Jane Dini
9 Francesco Pezzicar's L'Abolizione della schiavitu across empires - Caitlin Meehye Beach
10 A transatlantic cultural landscape: America in Rome at the beginning of the twentieth century - Daniele Fiorentino
11 New Deal murals and the myth of the Renaissance - Sergio Cortesini
12 Eterna primavera: Catherine Viviano, Irene Brin and Italian art's conquest of Hollywood - Raffaele Bedarida
13 Sculpture in the (ancient) city: Alexander Calder, David Smith, and Robert Smithson in Italy - Marin R. Sullivan
14 Paul Thek and the muses of Italy: death, decay, and the Technological reliquaries, 1963-67 - Erika Doss
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