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24 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.51511
- isbn: 9782859441364
- eisbn: 9791035104030
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Gabriella Micks, « II.3. "Bright, Peerless Italy": The Meaning of Italy for Washington Allston and his Art », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.51511
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Washington Allston is a unique figure in nineteenth-century American culture: admired both as painter and writer, he was an inspiration and an example for the generation active in the 1830’s, who shared S. T. Coleridge’s estimate of him as a man "of high and rare genius... whether I contemplate him in the character of a Poet, a Painter, or a philosophic Analyst". He established himself on both sides of the Atlantic as a painter of unquestionable talent--indeed, his countrymen considered him a...