By Irma B. Jaffe
The Italian Presence in American artwork is a wide-ranging exam of points of yankee paintings that owe a big debt to Italy and Italian artists.
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Now their descendants were returning from a Jerusalem that many lamented had been corrupted by materialism, in search of spiritual treasure. First, perhaps, among those themes brought into high relief in the following pages is Italy as a visual feast and mythic presence. Italy was where spirit had actual form. But almost equally prominent is the ambivalence many Americans felt with regard to the cultural umbilical cord that held them to Europe despite the political independence that had been won.
Hevner 9 3 "An Influence in the Air": Italian Art and American Taste in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Lillian B. Miller 26 4 Transformations: Copley in Italy Roger B. Stein 53 5 Theory and Practice: Leonardo da Vinci's Importance for American Artists, 18201860 Katherine E. Manthorne 56 6 Sleeping and Waking Fauns: Harriet Goodhue Hosmer's Experience of Italy, 18521870 Andrea Mariani 66 7 Washington Allston's Moonlit Landscape Marcia Briggs Wallace 82 8 Compliance and Resistance: Samuel F. B. Morse, Puritan in Arcadia Paul J.
It was in Florence, however, not in Rome, that the modern sensibility first emerged in Italy, and Regina Soria pinpoints the exact spot for usthe Caffè Michelangelo. As she observes, "there are few relevant artists of the second half of the nineteenth century who did not pass through the Caffè Michelangelo," and she gives us a new slant on the international character of this artists' gathering place which doubtless stimulated the young Italian painters who were rejecting classicism and "the troubadour style," the Italian modernists who came to be known as the Macchiaioli.