In the light of Naples
Subtitle: the art of Francesco de Mura
By: Arthur R. Blumenthal ; contributing essays by Nicola Spinosa, David Nolta, Loredana Gazzara, Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò
Contributors: Mura, Francesco de, 1696-1782, artist; Spinosa, Nicola, contributor; Nolta, David Derbin, contributor; Gazzara, Loredana, contributor; Leonetti Rodinò, Maria Grazia, contributor; George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum; Chazen Museum of Art; Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781907804854; 9780979228018
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: "This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696-1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and coloring, heralded the rococo, and his later style was a precursor of Neo-Classicism. His ceiling frescoes at Monte Cassino, destoyed in World War II, rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Yet today, he lacks his proper place in the history of art. This volume demonstrates why it is now time to reevaluate this once-celebrated artist"--
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 17 through December 18, 2016, at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wiscinsin-Madison, January 20 through April 2, 2017, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College from April 21 through July 2, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Life of Francesco de Mura / David Nolta; title: Francesco de Mura: A Chronology / Arthur R. Blumenthal; title: Francesco de Mura and Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting: Between Classicism and Rococo / Nicola Spinosa; title: Something-But Not the Same Thing-in the Air: De Mura, Tiepolo, and the Science of the Heavens / David Nolta; title: From Naples into the World: The Dispersal of Francesco de Mura's Works / Loredana Gazzara; title: Francesco de Mura's Gift to Pio Monte della Misericordia and Its Rediscovery in the U.S. / Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò; title: Catalogue / Arthur R. Blumenthal.