Sarah Burnsis Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. She is the author ofPainting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America(UC Press),Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America, andPastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture.John Davisis Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College. He is the author ofThe Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture.