The visual rhetoric of Charles Callahan Perkins: the early Italian Renaissance and a New Fine Arts paradigm for Boston

The art historian Charles Callahan Perkins (1823–1886) taught Boston elites to embrace early Italian Renaissance art, and, in so doing, transformed the cultural landscape of his city. Mostly Unitarian in their religious beliefs, the local elites had previously spurned Italian paintings and sculpture...

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Main Author: Stein, Deborah Hartry
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/20875