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  • Memories fade

    by Sara Carbone ...
    Translated by Vincenzo Pepe ...
    For many years the inhabitants of Olevano Sul Tusciano, an inland village in the province of Salerno, have replaced the expression “Do not think that I am rich”, with the sentence “Don’t think I am coming from Wilmington”.During the years of the Great Migration, a good many Olevanese left their village to emigrate to the United States, and chose Wilmington, a wealthy town in Delaware, as their ... Read more

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    “Alice B. Toklas wrote hers and now everybody will write theirs.” In 1933 Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists, and the author found herself a celebrity. Everybody’s Autobiography is the very Steinian account of her soul-satisfying next five years in France, England, and America, where she made a triumphant tour of the country. Here ... Read more

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  • Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis

    A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales

    by Harvey Rachlin ...
    The secret histories of the world’s most famous masterpiecesCaravaggios, Rembrandts, Monets—the works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are priceless masterpieces whose beauty, artistry, and emotional impact have inspired admiration, awe, and envy through the centuries. Yet behind many of these brilliant paintings and sculptures are fascinating, ... Read more

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  • Sandro Botticelli And Simonetta Vespucci In Renaissance Florence, Italy

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Sandro Botticelli and Simonetta Vespucci depend upon one another for their fame in many respects. The Genoan beauty who came to Florence as a teenager was the subject of many of Botticelli's paintings, including his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Had there been no Simonetta Botticelli might have ended up with lesser fame as did Ghirlandaio, his contemporary. Likewise, if not for Sandro ... Read more

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  • Giovanni Boldini: His Palette

    by Arron Adams ...
    Giovanni Boldini (1842 – 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting. His paintings showed his subject in soft-focus, elongated, in movement, alive, and sophisticated. The brush work on his paintings was swift and bold. It is the masterful brushwork that gives his ... Read more

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  • Art and Scandal

    The Naked Truth

    by Sally Whitman Coleman ...
    “Art and Scandal: The Naked Truth” is a collection of 23 short essays and images designed for contemporary audiences who want to know more about art history but don’t have time for classes or traditional art tomes. This concise, engagingly written eBook takes you inside the scandals that shook—and shaped—the art world dating to the early 16th Century. Some seem tame by today’s standards while ... Read more

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  • Words of Art

    Inspiring Quotes from the Masters

    by Adams Media ...
    "The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire." --Auguste Rodin, French sculptorWho better to speak about the creative process than the greatest artists in history? From Georgia O'Keeffe and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Pablo Picasso and Isak Dinesen, Words of Art is a celebration of the craft and the artists who have changed the way we see the world--and influenced how we create.You can't ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture

    by Allison Lee Palmer ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Neoclassicism refers to the revival of classical art and architecture beginning in Europe in the 1750s and lasting until around 1830, with late Neoclassicism lingering through the 1870s. Neoclassicism is a highly complex movement that brought together seemingly disparate issues into a new and culturally rich era, one that was, however, remarkably unified under the banner of classicism. This ... Read more

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  • Living the Revolution

    Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

    by Jennifer Guglielmo ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial ... Read more

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    by Laurie Dennett ...
    In An American Princess, Laurie Dennett relates the remarkable story of a New England woman whose wealth, intelligence, and charm took her to the heart of aristocratic and intellectual Europe. Marguerite Chapin (1880-1963) was the product of two cultures: her father’s enterprising American one and her mother’s French heritage, which enabled her to move to Paris when she inherited a fortune at age ... Read more

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  • 100 Great Artists

    A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol

    by Charlotte Gerlings ...
    From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in history.100 Great Artists showcases the masterworks of one hundred painters who represent eight centuries of artistic tradition, ranging from the 13th century to the 21st. Featuring spectacular full-color images and biographic timelines, this book is a wonderful resource to browse ... Read more

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  • Italian Venice

    A History

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...
    In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the ... Read more

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