Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library

by Sally M. Promey

Book Overview

A brilliant painter of society portraits, John Singer Sargent also devoted many years at the height of his career to a project of an entirely different order: an ambitious, multi-media decoration titled Triumph of Religion (1890-1919) for the Boston Public Library. The library cycle Sargent imagined as his most important work, however, would ultimately remain unfinished, quietly abandoned in the face of religious opposition, one critical painting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691089507
• ISBN13: 9780691089508
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"