Volume 2, Issue 1 | Winter 2003
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Coughlin

Millet's Milkmaids
by Maura Coughlin
A closer look at Jean-François Millet's re-use of a popular image from his home region of Normandy complicates the identity of "peasant-painter" claimed for him by his supporters and by his own assertions of "authentic" peasant experience.
Frankel

The Ecstasy of Decoration: The Grammar of Ornament as Embodied Experience
by Nicholas Frankel
The formalist rhetoric in Owen Jones's The Grammar of Ornament—a seminal text in the dissemination of ideas about decoration—was fatally undermined by the chromolithographic medium used to print the book's color plates, as well as by the radical perceptual effects unleashed by this new and visually exciting print technology.
Manoguerra

Anti-Catholicism in Albert Bierstadt's Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius
by Paul A. Manoguerra
Albert Bierstadt's Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius (1858) depicts a Yankee tourist couple surrounded by poor Romans, yet the picture can be read as an allegory of the sentiment against Irish Catholic immigrants felt by its primarily Protestant, and decidedly elite, audiences in Boston.


McQueen

Empress Eugénie's Quest for a Napoleonic Mausoleum
by Alison McQueen
Empress Eugénie's determination to erect a mausoleum for Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial led her to Farnborough, England, where her patronage created the only significant monument to the French Second Empire.
Murgia

The Rouillet Process and Drawing Education in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
by Camilla Murgia
Introduced in Paris in 1843, the drawing method of Amaranthe Rouillet (1810-1888) challenged longstanding attitudes about draftsmanship, visual experience, and the objectives of art education itself.