Study guide for the Art of the Western World video series

Art of the Western World Study Guide

Gealt, Adelheid

Macek, Pearson Marvin

Jaffe, Irma B.

Wnet (Television Station : New York, N. Y.)

Arts & Photography

Mcgraw-Hill College

Joseph Stella

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

Boston 1975 1st New York Graphic Society. Lg.4to., 346pp., hardcover. Fine in price-clipped VG plus dj. ISBN 0821204599. no owner marks.

John Trumbull, patriot-artist of the American Revolution

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Individual Artists

Fordham University Press

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.

The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860

Like a magic potion, Italianita has seeped through the stream of American aesthetic consciousness ever since Benjamin West stepped onto Italian soil in 1760. The first period of this artistic phenomenon was investigated in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 and the book at hand thus continues this intellectual exploration in its development during the following sixty years. Those decades between the Civil War and World War I brought to a climax the growing sense of American continental nationhood, and this strengthened perception of national identity was reflected in American art. A synthesis was achieved in which American values and images were fused with the great tradition flowing from its Italian source. Among the themes that arise from this examination of the role that Italy played in shaping American art is first and foremost the struggle to resolve the issue of what American art ought to express: our European heritage or our cultural independence. This question penetrates to the heart of the most widely debated topic in present-day American culture - multiculturalism. The reader may well find previously unconsidered relationships between our past and present, and may be led to reconsider problems posed by the conflicting needs of unity and diversity in our nation. Other themes that appear in these essays deal with the development of American wealth and its role in influencing the taste of the period, and with feminism. In these pages it will be noticed how very closely American art mirrors the American Experience. While all art reflects the cultural context in which it is created, the nature of American art, predominantly Romantic-Realism, makes the link between idea and image particularly visible. What becomes evident is that "the Italian presence" was almost never a simple matter of direct influence; rather it was an experience for American artists that afforded them, above all, insight and inspiration. Italy was America's muse.

The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920

This book presents the life stories of twelve extraordinary women who lived passionately and recorded in poetry their happiness and heartbreaks. Our English translations of their poetry are intended to make their poems seem to speak their thoughts, and we have included a CD with sixty-eight of their poems recorded in Italian literature, so that we do in fact hear their thoughts. In addition, several chapters take up some controversial art-historical problems centered on one or another of the women, suggesting possible solutions. This copiously illustrated, interdisciplinary book of 239 poems-poetry-in-context--- is not an anthology; together with the CD of readings, and the challenging art-historical discussions of several paintings, it is unique. There is no other similar book.

Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A prominent writer, a master painter, and a treasure of art that for centuries had been largely neglected are brought brilliantly to life in this first important study of one of the great legacies of Renaissance art. The immense castle at Cataio, about thirty-five miles from Venice, was built between 1570 and 1573. An extraordinary series of frescoes, painted in 1573, covers the walls of six of its palatial halls. Programmed by Giuseppe Betussi, the forty frescoes depict momentous events in the history of the Obizzi family from 1004 to 1422. Executed by Giambattista Zelotti and assistants, the frescoes, plus ceiling decorations, are painted in a Mannerist, highly illusionist style with such skill that the walls seem to be windows through which one views battle scenes, weddings, political negotiations, and other episodes in the dramatic history of the Obizzi family.Now one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian art takes readers room by room, fresco by fresco, on the first guided tour of this Betussi-Zelotti masterpiece. Writing with characteristic clarity, Irma Jaffe combines art history, iconography, formal analysis, Italian history, and the story of the Obizzi family in a richly detailed esthetic, social and historical introduction to the entire series.Describing and explaining with spirit and authority the composition and meaning of each fresco-each illustrated with full color plates-Jaffe also illuminates the fascinating decorations on the ceilings and overdoors of the great rooms. In figures that personify virtues and vices, to comment on the events painted on the walls beneath them, the values of sixteenth century Italy are reflected with uncommon clarity in both the fresco saga and the decorations above.A full understanding of Mannerism and sixteenth century painting must now include the contribution of Battista Zelotti. In the scenes at Cataio he reveals the possibilities available to Mannerist style in his countless poses of the human figure and of horses, in his variety of settings---indoor and outdoor, land and sea---and in the range of preeminent sixteenth century values such as family rank and pride, personal courage, and religion that are expressed in his Saga of the Obizzi family. Zelotti's masterpiece carries the artificiality inherent in Mannerism to a new level of theatrical drama. Viewing the scenes of fierce battles, magnificent weddings, assassinations, and triumph after triumph, suggests to modern viewers something of the splendor of grand opera.For Renaissance scholars and students, for art historians, for travelers and art lovers interested in the heritage of the Renaissance in Italy and in the glorious estates of the Veneto, Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga will be an indispensable introduction and guide to a treasure hidden in plain sight for many years.

Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga

Trumbull: The Declartion of Independence

Beekman Books Inc

The selection of twentieth-century American drawings in this book reflects the attitude of the entire collection: That regardless of style or medium it is the quality of a work on paper that is important.

Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation

Koeshak, Yvonne

Arkansas Arts Center

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Art of the Western World Study Guide

Joseph Stella

John Trumbull, patriot-artist of the American Revolution

Joseph Stella

The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860

The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920

Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets

Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga

Trumbull: The Declartion of Independence

Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation