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Joseph Manca

Joseph Manca

Joseph Manca received his Ph. D. from Columbia University in 1986, and since 1989 has taught at Rice University, where he is a Professor of Art History and the Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History. His teaching and research focus on early American art and architecture and on European art from 1300 to 1850. His most recent book, George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) was awarded the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for 2014, which is given out by the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and that book was given an honorable mention by the Association of American Publishers in 2012 in the category of Architecture and Urban Planning. Manca's book Subject Matter in Italian Renaissance Art: A Study of Early Sources (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies]) is in press. Currently in progress is a book on Shaker material culture.

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Religion February 1, 2016 August 28, 2016

The Touro Synagogue: Peter Harrison, George Washington, and Religious Freedom in America

The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island is the only Jewish house of worship that survives from the American colonial period. Built at the…

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People August 12, 2015 August 28, 2016

The Shakers and the American Revolution

The Shakers reached their heyday in the nineteenth century, when they lived in orderly communities, membership swelled to five thousand believers, and many non-Shakers…

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People February 5, 2015 August 28, 2016

George Washington’s Use of Humor during the Revolutionary War

Most early portraits of George Washington represent him as serious and even dour, and more than a few contemporaries described the man as aloof….

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Places July 2, 2014 March 18, 2021

George Washington’s Mount Vernon: A Landscape for the New Cincinnatus

When George Washington returned to Mount Vernon in the last days of 1783, he became the new Cincinnatus. Roman senators in the fifth-century B.C….

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