Figuring by Maria Popova
Author:Maria Popova
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2019-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
Under the enchantment of Cushman’s tales of life in Rome’s expat community of artists and queer women, Hosmer made another radical decision that would shape her life: She would move to Rome to apprentice with one of the great masters. A decade earlier, Margaret Fuller had written to her mother: “Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.”
Four weeks before her departure, Hatty wrote to Wayman “Pater” Crow: “I feel that I am on the eve of a new life, that the earth will look larger, the sky brighter, and the world in general more grand.” More than a century before the American government established a national endowment for the arts, she writes:
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