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Acknowledgments
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ix
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Notes on Contributors
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xi
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Introduction: From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798–1898
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1
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Rosella Mamoli Zorzi and Katherine Manthorne
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Part I On Light
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7
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Tintoretto: An Unexpected Light. Lightnings, Haloes, Embers and Other Glowing Lights.
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9
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Melania G. Mazzucco
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2.
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The Artificial Lighting Available to European and American Museums, 1800–1915
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25
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David E. Nye
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Part II On Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and in Venice
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41
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3.
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Tintoretto in San Rocco Between Light and Darkness
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43
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Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel
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4.
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John Ruskin and Henry James in the Enchanting Darkness of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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53
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Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
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5.
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Light at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
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71
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Demetrio Sonaglioni
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6.
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The Light in the Venice Ducal Palace
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79
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Camillo Tonini
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Latent in Darkness: John Ruskin’s Virtual Guide to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice
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87
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Emma Sdegno
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8.
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Venice, Art and Light in French Literature: 1831–1916
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99
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Cristina Beltrami
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Part III On Light in American Museums
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107
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One Hundred Gems of Light: The Peale Family Introduces Gaslight to America
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109
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Burton K. Kummerow
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Illuminating the Big Picture: Frederic Church’s Heart of the Andes Viewed by Writers
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117
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Katherine Manthorne
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11.
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Italian Genius in American Light: The James Jackson Jarves Collection at Yale
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129
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Kathleen Lawrence
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12.
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Shedding Light on the History of Lighting at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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141
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Holly Salmon
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13.
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Seeing Beauty: Light and Design at the Freer Gallery, ca.1923
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151
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Lee Glazer
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Part IV On Light in Museum and Mansions in England, France, and Spain
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165
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14.
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Lighting up the Darkness: The National Gallery, London
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167
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Sarah Quill
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15.
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Sir John Soane
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177
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Helen Dorey
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16.
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Chatsworth, a Modern English Mansion
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189
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Marina Coslovi
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17.
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Daylight and Gold: In the Galleries With Henry James
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201
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Paula Deitz
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18.
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Remarks on Illumination in Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writings on Madrid’s Prado Museum
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211
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Pere Gifra-Adroher
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Part V On Light in Italian Museums
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221
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19.
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To Look (and to See) in the Nineteenth Century: At the Uffizi and Elsewhere
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223
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Cristina Acidini
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20.
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Ways of Perceiving: The Passionate Pilgrims’ Gaze in Nineteenth-Century Italy
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239
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Margherita Ciacci
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21.
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‘In the Quiet Hours and the Deep Dusk, These Things too Recovered Their Advantage’: Henry James on Light in European Museums
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261
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Joshua Parker
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22.
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‘Shedding Light on Old Italian Masters’: Timothy Cole’s Series for the Century
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271
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Page S. Knox
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23.
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‘Into the Broad Sunlight’: Anne Hampton Brewster’s Chronicle of Gilded Age Rome
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285
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Adrienne Baxter Bell
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Part VI On Light in Museums in Japan
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295
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24.
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In Praise of Shadows: Ernest Fenollosa and the Origins of Japanese Museum Culture
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297
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Dorsey Kleitz and Sandra Lucore
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Postscript
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307
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Premonitions: Shakespeare to James
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309
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Sergio Perosa
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26.
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The Museum on Stage: From Plato’s Myth to Today’s Perception
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319
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Alberto Pasetti Bombardella
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27.
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Time and Light
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323
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Antonio Foscari
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Bibliography
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List of Illustrations
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