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Educating America
"A picture of masterpieces would be one-stop shopping for Americans
who
didn't know much about fine art."
- Interview with
Paul Staiti
, Author
Samuel F.B. Morse
Conservator Lance Mayer. 2012. "A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's 'Gallery of the Louvre.'"
Lance Mayer, Independent Conservator. 2012. Taylor Walsh
"Morse is favoring certain periods, the 16th and 17th centuries, which might have been seen as the 'golden age' of painting."
-Interview with
Lance Mayer
, Conservator of Samuel Morse's 'Gallery of the Louvre'
"Mona Lisa." Leonardo Da Vinci. 1503-1506. Webmuseum Paris.
"Virgin, Child & St. John." Raffaele. 1507. Arpoma.
"Portrait of Francis I." Titian. 1539. Titianpaintings.com.
"One aspect of Morse’s selection of the pictures, is a lot of them are of religious subjects painted by Catholics and used in Catholic churches. And Morse, to his discredit, later in his life became vehemently anti-Catholic - he was one of these nativists."
-Interview with
Lance Mayer
, Conservator of Samuel Morse's 'Gallery of the Louvre'
"Pilgrams of Emmaus." Titian. 1530. Titianpaintings.com
"Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus." Claude Lorrain. 1642. artchive.com
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