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As an artist, Gandolfi deplores the American prohibition against studying or depicting the nude figure. As a former revolutionary in his own country, he is enraptured to discover the many manifestations of liberty, fraternity and equality in this democratic land. Throughout his writings, the visiting European provides an account of society, culture and the art scene of the early-19th-century United States.

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I have never in the world seen a panorama comparable to this for bizarre and picturesque effect... What renders the effect so piquant and curious is to see a humble hut alongside a palace, a peristyle imitating the Pantheon right next door to an ugly wooden house. Mauro Gandolfi's impression of New York City, 1816

"""I have never in the world seen a panorama comparable to this for bizarre and picturesque effect... What renders the effect so piquant and curious is to see a humble hut alongside a palace, a peristyle imitating the Pantheon right next door to an ugly wooden house."" Mauro Gandolfi's impression of New York City, 1816"

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Mimi Cazort is Curator Emerita of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

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