Description:
Examines Rome's contribution to the technical and artistic development of photography up to 1871, focusing on experimental painter-photographers and the adoption of the medium as an equal branch of art.
Brief description: John F. McGuigan Jr. is an independent art historian and the coauthor of James E. Freeman, 1808-1884: An American Painter in Italy; John Gadsby Chapman: America's First Artist-Etcher; and At the Foot of the Pyramid: 300 Years of the Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome.