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Would anyone responding to Prof. Ryan's request please pass the
information on to me? I can remember the set of paintings also, and also
cannot remember the artist or the titles. I'm not even sure if I saw them
in person or in print. And now it's going to drive me crazy. I tried
various titles in World painting index (basic set and supplements 1 and 2)
but came up empty.
Susan Lentz
University of Calif.
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:55:27 EDT
From: Patrick Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Stages of History
Resent-Subject: Stages of History
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Hello,
I'm a professor of American history, and I thought someone on the list might
be able to help me locate a set of four paintings which depict the classical
republican stages of history - that is the rise and fall from agrarian
simplicity to civic virtue to imperial corruption to social disintegration. I
believe this artist was an American, but he may have been a European patronized
by Americans in the early nineteenth century. Trouble for me is that I can not
seem to recall where I saw this set, or any details relating to their
production. I associated them immediately with the ideology of the American
revolution, because I'm an American historian, but it's possible that they were
produced during the Italian Renaissance. If I could have clues as to the
artists name, or of course the names of the paintings... I'd be grateful.
Patrick Ryan
University of Texas at Dallas
