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Chapter 1

1.1

Tintoretto, Judith and Holofernes, Museo del Prado, 1550. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judit_y_Holofernes,_por_Tintoretto.jpg

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1.2

Tintoretto, Saint Roch Cures the Plague-Stricken, Venice, Church of San Rocco, 1549. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Rocco_Venezia_(Interno)_-_San_Rocco_risana_gli_appestati.jpg

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1.3

Tintoretto, The Finding of the Body of St Mark, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, ca.1564. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_Finding_of_the_body_of_St_Mark_-_Yorck_Project.jpg

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1.4

Tintoretto, Saint Roch in Prison Comforted by an Angel, Church of San Rocco, Venice, 1567. CC BY-NC-ND, http://www.scuolagrandesanrocco.org/home-en/tintoretto/church/

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1.5

Tintoretto, The Adoration of the Magi, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1581–82. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_WGA22583.jpg

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1.6

Tintoretto, The Last Supper, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1591–92. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Last_Supper_-_WGA22649.jpg

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Chapter 2

2.1

Gas lamp, New Orleans. Photograph taken by daveiam, 12 June 2008. CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/daveiam/2584549633/

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2.2

Charles Brush, DC Arc Light, patent granted 1878. Glass shade not shown in order to reveal the interior mechanism. US Patent Office, Patent 203,411. Public domain.

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2.3

Thomas Edison, incandesent light bulb with carbon filament and improved glass shape, patent granted 1881. US Patent Office, Patent D 12,631. Public domain.

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2.4

Gas mantle burning at its highest setting. Photograph taken by Fourpointsix, August 2008. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glowing_gas_mantle.jpg

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2.5

Westinghouse Alternating Current Arc Light, 1890. A frosted glass shade was placed over this mechanism when in use. US Patent Office, Patent 428, 435. Public domain.

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2.6

Incandescent light with tungsten filament. Electrical World, August 1911.

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Chapter 3

3.1

Tintoretto, Ascent to the Calvary, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1566–67. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Droga_krzy%C5%BCowa.jpg

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3.2

Tintoretto, Moses Striking the Rock, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1577. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:File-Tintoretto,_Jacopo_-_Moses_Striking_Water_from_the_Rock_-_1577_-_122kb.jpg

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3.3

Tintoretto, The Adoration of the Shepherds, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1578–81. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Adoration_of_the_Shepherds_-_WGA22550.jpg

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3.4

Tintoretto, The Baptism of Christ, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1578–81. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Baptism_of_Christ_-_WGA22551.jpg

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3.5

Tintoretto, The Resurrection of Christ, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1578–81. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Resurrection_of_Christ_-_WGA22555.jpg

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3.6

Titian, Annunciation, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, ca.1535. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titian_-_Annunciation_-_WGA22805.jpg

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3.7

Tintoretto, Visitation, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1588. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_Visitation_-_WGA22645.jpg

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Chapter 4

4.1

Tintoretto, Ascension of the Virgin (cropped), Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, 1582–87. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_-_The_Assumption_of_the_Virgin_-_WGA22601.jpg

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Chapter 5

5.1

The Sala Capitolare in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, 1937. Photo by Mariano Fortuny.

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5.2

The Ground-Floor Hall of the Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, with the new lighting installed in 2011, CC BY 4.0.

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5.3

Sala dell’Albergo, Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, CC BY 4.0.

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5.4

Tintoretto’s huge Crucifixion (1565) in the Sala dell’Albergo, Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, CC BY 4.0.

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5.5

The new projectors inserted in two Fortuny diffusers, CC BY 4.0.

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5.6

Tintoretto’s Crucifixion (1565) in the Sala dell’Albergo, Scuola di San Rocco, Venice. Lit to highlight details: the two left and right backgrounds, CC BY 4.0.

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Chapter 7

7.1

Carlo Naya. Sala dell’Assunta, Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice.

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Chapter 10

10.1

Frederic Church, Heart of the Andes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1859. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Heart_of_the_Andes.jpg

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10.2

Frederic Church, Niagara, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1857. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niagara_by_Frederic_Edwin_Church,_1857_-_Corcoran_Gallery_of_Art_-_DSC01135.JPG

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Chapter 12

12.1

The Gothic Room, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. All rights reserved.

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Chapter 13

13.1

Freer Gallery of Art, Installation view of Chinese Gallery, 1923. Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Archive, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image # SIA2015-000819.

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13.2

Alvin Langdon Coburn, Charles Lang Freer comparing a thirteenth-century Raqqa ware jar with Whistler’s Venus Rising from the Sea, 1909. Charles Lang Freer Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Archive, Smithsonian Institution.

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Chapter 16

16.1

The Sculpture-Gallery, Chatsworth, drawing by Joel Cook (1882), in Joel Cook, England, Picturesque and Descriptive. A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1882), p. 84, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29787/29787-h/29787-h.htm

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Chapter 17

17.1

Emanuel Stöckler, The Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris, 1868. Watercolour on paper, 54.6 x 53.3 cm. Private collection: photograph by Beth Phillips. Reprinted by permission of the owner.

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17.2

Winslow Homer, Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris, 1868. Wood engraving, 23.3 x 35.2 cm. Brooklyn Museum, gift of Harvey Isbitts, 1998.105.102

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17.3

Hubert Robert, The Project for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, 1796. Oil on canvas, 112 x 145 cm. Inv. RF1975-10. Photo by Jean-Gilles Berizzi. Musée du Louvre. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY.

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Chapter 20

20.1

Carlo Canella, Veduta di Piazza della Signoria dalla Loggia dei Lanzi, Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 1847. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carlo_canella,_veduta_di_piazza_della_signoria_dalla_loggia_dei_lanzi,_1830,_01.jpg

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Chapter 22

22.1 (a-e)

Timothy Cole, selected engravings from Old Italian Masters Engraved by Timothy Cole with Historical Notes by W. J. Stillman and Brief Comments by the Engraver (New York: The Century Co., 1892), Public domain.

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22.2 (a-b)

Timothy Cole, selected engravings dedicated to Byzantine and Trecento Renaissance Painting, from Old Italian Masters Engraved by Timothy Cole with Historical Notes by W. J. Stillman and Brief Comments by the Engraver (New York: The Century Co., 1892), Public domain.

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Chapter 23

23.1

Fratelli D’Alessandri, Anne Hampton Brewster, photograph, Rome, ca.1874. Print Collection, The Library Company of Philadelphia.

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23.2

Ippolito Caffi, I moccoletti al Corso, tempera on paper, 83.8 x 121.8 cm, Museo di Roma, Trastevere, Rome.

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Chapter 27

27.1

Sebastiano del Piombo, Saints John Chrysostom, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Theodore, Mary Magdalen, Lucy and Catherine, San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, 1510-11. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sebastiano_del_piombo,_pala_di_san_giovanni_crisostomo_01.jpg

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27.2

Tullio Lombardo, Traditio Legis (detail), San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, 1500-2. Photograph (cropped) by Didier Descouens, 13 September 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Giovanni_Grisostomo_(interno)_-_pala_marmorea_di_Tullio_Lombardo.jpg

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27.3

Giovanni Bellini, Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louise of Toulouse, San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, 1513. Wikimedia. Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellini,_Sts_Christopher,_Jerome_and_Louis_of_Toulouse.jpg

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