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SALEM TO ROME: WILLIAM WETMORE STORY, LOUISA LANDER, SOPHIA AND NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND SCULPTURAL CONTROVERSY
SALEM TO ROME: WILLIAM WETMORE STORY, LOUISA LANDER, SOPHIA AND NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND SCULPTURAL CONTROVERSY
During the 1850s, American artists and writers formed a community in Rome. Among them were Salem-born William Wetmore Story, Louisa Lander, and Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Story had abandoned his distinguished career as a Boston attorney to become a prolific sculptor. In his Cleopatra and Libyan Sybil, he sculpted strong, sensuous, controversial women and earned...
