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Exhibition dates: 16th September 2017 – 28th January 2018
Charles DeForest Fredricks (American, 1823-1894)
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c. 1852
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Charles DeForest Fredricks (American, 1823-1894)
Charles DeForest Fredricks (December 11, 1823 – May 25, 1894) was an American photographer.
Charles D. Fredricks was born in New York City on December 11, 1823. He learned the art of the daguerreotype from Jeremiah Gurney in New York, while he worked as a casemaker for Edward Anthony. In 1843, at the suggestion of his brother, Fredricks sailed for Angostura, today Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His business took him to Pará, Rio Grande do Sul, Montevideo, Buenos Aires. He enjoyed great success in South America, remaining there until some time in the early 1850s.
Following a brief period in Charleston, South Carolina, Fredricks moved to Paris in 1853. Here he became the first photographer to create life-sized portraits, which artists (like Jules-Émile Saintin) were hired to colour using pastel.
On his return to New York City, he rejoined Jeremiah Gurney, though it is not clear whether he was initially a partner or an emp
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Fausto Sozzini
Italian theologian and co-founder of Socinianism (1539–1604)
Fausto Paolo Sozzini (Italian:[ˈfaustoˈpaːolosotˈtsiːni]; Polish: Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), often known in English by his Latinized nameFaustus Socinus (FAW-stəs soh-SY-nəs), was an ItalianRenaissance humanist and theologian,[1] and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinitarian Christianbelief system known as Socinianism.[1][2] His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church between the 16th and 17th centuries,[1][3][4] and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period.[1][3][5]
Fausto Sozzini recollected most of his uncle Lelio's religious writings by traveling over again his routes throughout early modern Europe, and systematized his Antitrinitarian beliefs into a coherent theological doctrine.[1] His polemical treatise De sacrae Scripturae auctoritate (written in the years 1580s and published in England in 1732, with the title A demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion, from the Latin of Socinius) was highly influential on Remonstrant thinkers such as Simon Episcopi
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