In the light of Naples : the art of Francesco de Mura / Arthur R. Blumenthal ; contributing essays by Nicola Spinosa, David Nolta, Loredana Gazzara, Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò.

"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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blumenthal, Arthur R. (Author)
Corporate Authors: George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Organizer, Host institution)
Chazen Museum of Art (Host institution)
Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Host institution)
Other Authors: Mura, Francesco de, 1696-1782 (Artist)
Spinosa, Nicola (Contributor)
Nolta, David Derbin (Contributor)
Gazzara, Loredana (Contributor)
Leonetti Rodinò, Maria Grazia (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: Winter Park, Florida : London : The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College ; D Giles Limited, 2016.
Subjects:
Mura, Francesco de, > 1696-1782 > Exhibitions.
Mura, Francesco de, > 1696-1782.
ART > Individual Artists > General.
ART > History > Baroque & Rococo.
ART > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
ART > Subjects & Themes > Religious.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Life of Francesco de Mura / David Nolta
  • Francesco de Mura: A Chronology / Arthur R. Blumenthal
  • Francesco de Mura and Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting: Between Classicism and Rococo / Nicola Spinosa
  • Something-But Not the Same Thing-in the Air: De Mura, Tiepolo, and the Science of the Heavens / David Nolta
  • From Naples into the World: The Dispersal of Francesco de Mura's Works / Loredana Gazzara
  • Francesco de Mura's Gift to Pio Monte della Misericordia and Its Rediscovery in the U.S. / Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò
  • Catalogue / Arthur R. Blumenthal.