The Italian presence in American art 1760-1860

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The Italian presence in American art 1760-1860

edited by Irma B. Jaffe

Fordham University Press , Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1989

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The Italian Presence in American Art is a wide-ranging examination of aspects of American art that owe an important debt to Italy and Italian artists.

Table of Contents

  • "Italy and Benjamin West", Allen Staley
  • "Rembrandt Peale's dream and experience of Italy", Carol E.Hevner
  • "an influence in the air - the impact of Italy on American collecting", Lillian B.Miller
  • "problems in ideological transformation", Roger B.Stein
  • "the importance for the American artist of Leonardo da Vinci's advice and example", Katherine Manthorne
  • "the patriot and the faun - M.Fuller and H.G. Hosmer in Rome (1848-1860)", Andrea Mariani
  • "Washington Allston's moonlit landscape", Marcia Wallace
  • "compliance and resistance - Samuel F.B. Morse, puritan in arcadia", Paul J.Staiti
  • "on return from arcadia echoes of Italy in the works of Thomas Cole versus Samuel F.B.Morse in the 1830s", Ellwood C.Parry
  • "frontier iconography in the United States capitol", Vivien Green Fryd
  • "Constantino Brumidi's Frescoes in the United States capitol", Barbara Wolanin
  • "new insights into Elihu Vedder's Florentine experience, 1857-1860", Regina Soria
  • "Italian influences in Thomas Crawford's sculpture", Lauretta Dimmick
  • "the zenobia crisis", Carol Zastoupil
  • and "the italianate villa and the search for an American style, 1840-1860", Charles E.Brownell.

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