Celebrating Botticelli : the taste for the Italian Renaissance in the United States, 1870-1920

Author

Miller, Lillian B.

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Italian presence in American art, 1860-1920

Author (monograph)

Jaffe, Irma B. (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Italian presence in American art, 1860-1920. 1992, 1-2 2, 13 ill. (1 col.)

Publisher

Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Roma (ita)

Publication country

Italy

Abstract (en)

Discusses the spread of appreciation of Botticelli's art from Europe, especially England, to the United States, as exemplified by the collecting activities of Isabella Stewart Gardner and her advisor, Bernard Berenson, John G. Johnson, and J. Pierpont Morgan. Links their taste to a modernist sensibility.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United States
• Art
• Italy
• 1400-1500
• Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), 1444/45-1510
• Painting
• Collectors
• United States
• Modernism
• Taste (aesthetics)
• Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
• Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
• Johnson, John G., 1841-1917
• Morgan, John Pierpont I, 1837-1913
• Collections

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- États-Unis
• Art
• Italie
• 1400-1500
• Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), 1444/45-1510
• Peinture
• Collectionneurs
• Etats-Unis
• Modernisme
• Goût (esthétique)
• Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
• Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
• Johnson, John G., 1841-1917
• Morgan, John Pierpont I, 1837-1913
• Collections

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00338068

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