19thc-artworldwide.org Website Review

When last checked the page no longer existed at its original location. Versions of the page can be found in the Internet Archive. At that site, select a blue circled calendar date. A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Art Museums in the United by Sally Webster and David Schwittek with Carlo Diego, Cara Jordan, Lauren Ritz, Leonidas Maliokas, Bruce The genesis of this digital reconstruction of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery is nine archival photographs (ca. 1882) that replicate the installation of the paintings owned by the New York bibliophile and art collector James Lenox. This three-dimensional, interactive platform allows easy access to the paintings and their history. The primary goal is to demonstrate that Lenox’s picture gallery is representative of the pre-Gilded Age era, when issues such as collecting and installation practices in the United States were coming to the fore and curatorial strategies were becoming articulated. This study began with a question: In 1866, how could an educated Bostonian have purchased as an original Raphael the painting of the this article reconstructs the biography of the painting, made in mid- to late eighte*nth-century Verona, Italy, by Giuseppe or Giambettino Cignaroli. In the successive stages of its biography, the painting acquired new cultural “status” and was sold as a masterpiece of world of ninete*nth-century Boston, leading to the conclusion that Bostonians lacked the visual resources to study Raphael’s oeuvre and Leicestershire, England. Drawing on unpublished archival resources and contemporaneous reviews, this article reconsiders one of Gibson’s most overlooked statues both in the context of his oeuvre and polychrome sculpture, and as an example of co-creative agency in the Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau: Living Statue by Elizabeth L. Block “living statue,” Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau performed a role in society that observers found fashionable and alluring; however,