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Christopher Johns Presents Paper on John Singleton Copley

Posted by on Monday, March 23, 2015 in HART, VRC.

copleystudyascensionChristopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, presented a paper on Saturday, March 21, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles. Its title: “John Singleton Copley in Rome: The Challenge of the Old Masters Accepted.”

The paper was read in the session “American Latium: The Impact of Rome on American Artists in the Long Eighteenth Century,” chaired by Karin Wolfe, Research Fellow, British School at Rome. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period—from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

*John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). Study for “The Ascension,” 1774. Ink (“Bistre”) washes, pen and ink, black chalk, and graphite on off-white laid paper, watercolor. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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