
Ludger tom Ring, the Younger (attributed to), The Open Missal, mid-sixteenth century
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In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura
Exhibition: April 21-July 2, 2017 208 page book, 9 1/2 x 11 in Illustrations — 110 color Published by The Cornell Fine Ats Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida in association with D Giles Limited, London ISBN 9780979228018 (softcover), ISBN 9781907804854 (hardcover) Price: $25 (softcover), $35 (hardcover)
About the publication
Francesco de Mura (1696–1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples, at last gains the attention he deserves in this first-ever scholarly publication. De Mura’s refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and color, heralded the Rococo in Naples, while his later classicistic style led to the simplicity and sculptural quality of Neoclassicism. In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura reveals the power of his work through more than 200 colour illustrations, including details from his great frescoes, as well as images of many of his key paintings—published here for the first time.
The indisputable leader in his day of the Neapolitan School and the favorite of the reigning Bourbon King Charles VII (1735-59), Francesco de Mura was the chief painter of decorative cycles to emerge from the studio of Francesco Solimena (1657–1747), the great Baroque artist. Outstanding works in Naples include the enormous oil painting of The Adoration of the Magi (ca.1728) for the church of Santa Maria Donnaromita, and the stunning frescoes of The Adoration of the Magi (1732) in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella and, on the ceiling of the nave of the same church, The Assumption of the Virgin (1751). Nearly a third of De Mura’s works were destroyed in the American and British bombing of Naples during World War II, including, most tragically, his series of frescoes at the abbey of Monte Cassino.
The catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name, which was presented at The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, September 17–December 18, 2016; the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 20-April 2, 2017; and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, April 21-July 2, 2017. Catalogue edited by Arthur R. Bumenthal with essays by Nicola Spinosa, David Nolta, Loredana Gazzara, and Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò.
Available titles:
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Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch Collection
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Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project
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Fluid Ecologies: Hispanic Caribbean Art from the Permanent Collection
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Punctuating Space: The Prints and Multiples of Richard Artschwager
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Through the Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Masterworks from the Dawn of Photography
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Exhibition: January 30-March 29, 2015
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540
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The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation
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Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain
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Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu
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A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum
Exhibition: September 16 – December 11, 2011
A Taste for the Modern: Gifts from Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Edna Bryner Schwab, and Virginia Herrick Deknatel
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Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England
Exhibition: April 8 – June 12, 2011
150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin
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Albrecht Dürer: Impressions of the Renaissance
Exhibition: November 14 – December 24, 2009
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Exhibition: August 14 – November 1, 2009
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Exhibition: May 8 – July 26, 2009
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Exhibition February 13 – Aril 26, 2009
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Exhibition: March 23 – May 13, 2007
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Exhibition January 12- March 11, 2007
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Exhibition October 6 – December 17, 2006
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Exhibition: September 13- October 22, 2006
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Exhibition June 20 – September 17, 2006
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Exhibition: April 28-September 3, 2006
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Exhibition: September 30-December 18, 2005
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Exhibition April 8 – June 19, 2005
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Exhibition: April 9-August 1, 2004
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Exhibition April 9 – June 13, 2004
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Exhibition January 17-March 16, 2003
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Exhibition: July 5 - September 15, 2002
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Exhibition April 5-June 16, 2002
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Exhibition June 29-September 16, 2001
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Exhibition April 6-June 10, 2001
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Exhibition October 5 - December 20, 2000
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Exhibition June 30 - September 17, 2000
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Exhibition April 6 - June 11, 2000
Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints 1739-1860
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Refining the Imagination: Tradition, Collecting, and the Vassar Education
Exhibition April 23 - September 19, 1999
Heroic America: James Daugherty's Mural Drawings from the 1930s
Exhibition April 3 - June 7, 1998
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Exhibition: March 29 - May 26, 1996
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Exhibition October 7 - December 11, 1994
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Exhibition: September 28 - November 25, 1990
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Exhibition: October 8 - November 20, 1988
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Exhibition: November 7 - December 8, 1986
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Vassar College Art Gallery: Sculpture
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Hudson Valley People: Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900
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