Publications by Marie Tavinor
‘God save Antonio Fradeletto’: Anglophilia and the consumption of British Art at the Venice Biennale, 1895–1914
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2021
The literature generally hails Antonio Fradeletto (1858-1930), first general secretary of the Bie... more The literature generally hails Antonio Fradeletto (1858-1930), first general secretary of the Biennale between 1895 and 1914, as instrumental in organising the venture and in setting forth its artistic and commercial direction in conjunction with the City Mayor, president of the Biennale. During these early ‘heroic’ years of the Biennale, the general secretary concentrated a lot of power in his hands, from curating some of the sections, to managing the venue, to facilitating the sales. In addition, Fradeletto was an elected MP representing Venice at the Parliament in Rome, who also found the time to pursue some intellectual and literary activities. Antonio Fradeletto is therefore taken as an ‘ego-centric’ case study to explore the extent and limits of agency at the Venice Biennale. Indeed, by focussing specifically on Fradeletto’s acknowledged Anglophilia and on his support of the British section, this article seeks to highlight the negotiations and compromises going on behind the scene, and the way Fradeletto pushed his own preferences to implement his vision of the Biennale. More broadly, this perspective allows to investigate how far political and cultural biases may affect the development of a cultural institution such as the Biennale.
RIASSUNTO ITALIANO
Antonio Fradeletto (1858-1930), primo segretario generale della Biennale dal 1895 al 1914, viene generalmente descritto, insieme a Riccardo Selvatico, sindaco di Venezia e presidente dell’istituzione, quale figura determinante nella definizione della direzione artistica e commerciale dell’esposizione. Duranti i primi anni, denominati ‘eroici’, il segretario generale concentrò il potere nelle sue mani, occupandosi tanto di curare alcune esposizioni, quanto di gestire le sedi e promuovere le vendite. Oltretutto Fradeletto venne eletto deputato presso il Parlamento di Roma, cosa che non gli impedì di trovare il tempo di impegnarsi in attività intellettuali e letterarie. Il testo intende dunque indagare Antonio Fradeletto come un caso studio ‘egocentrico’ capace di estendere oltre i confini nazionali il ruolo di agente della Biennale di Venezia. In particolare, attraverso la sua riconosciuta anglofilia, che portò Fradeletto a supportare la sezione Britannica, l’indagine mette in luce le trattative e i compromessi avvenuti dietro le quinte, e il modo in cui Fradeletto abbia realizzato la propria idea di Biennale, facendo prevalere le sue preferenze personali. Più in generale questa specifica prospettiva consente di indagare fino a che punto pregiudizi politici e culturali possano influenzare lo sviluppo di un’istituzione culturale come la Biennale.
Recycling Luxury: An Introduction
Journal of Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 2019
Le luxe désordonné se détruit lui-même, il épuise ses sources, il tarit ses canaux.
Saint-Lambert... more Le luxe désordonné se détruit lui-même, il épuise ses sources, il tarit ses canaux.
Saint-Lambert
This special issue of the Journal Luxury, History, Culture, Consumption stems from a conference which took place in July 2019 at Christie’s Education in London. The conference coincided with Christie’s Classic Week (4-11 July 2019), a metaphorical time capsule concentrating luxury objects from Antiquity to the present day before they are dispersed through the circular economy.
The conference theme, ‘Recycling Luxury’, aimed at probing these two topical concepts from a historical perspective and examining them through their apparent dialectical tensions. My introduction aimed to look at the etymologycal origins of the concepts of 'Luxury' and 'Recycling' and to question their (absence of) historical connections.
Journal of Art Historiography, 2020
Review of: The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer. René Gimpel, 1918-1939, by Diana J. Kostyrk... more Review of: The Journal of a Transatlantic Art Dealer. René Gimpel, 1918-1939, by Diana J. Kostyrko, London, Turnhout: Harvey Miller/ Brepols Publishers, 2017, 360pp., 53 b. &. W. illus., €100 hdbk, ISBN 978-1-909400-51-1.
A prominent art dealer operating between Paris and New York during the interwar years, René Gimpel (1881-1945) kept a diary which was first published in 1963 and then republished in an extended version in 2011. Using the diary as a tool, albeit acknowledging its sometimes problematic nature as literary object, Diana J. Kostyrko seeks to frame Gimpel’s life and business activity in a vast transdisciplinary account. This valuable book, the second in Harvey Miller’s series on Collectors and Dealers, fills some important historiographic gaps in the history of collecting, the history of the art market and more broadly sheds light on the rise of modernity.
"Wonderful Revelations": Scottish Art at the Venice Biennale and the Strategies of Innovation and Reputation, 1897-1899
Journal of Art Market Studies, 2018
This article examines the introduction of two waves of Scottish artists at the newly-founded Veni... more This article examines the introduction of two waves of Scottish artists at the newly-founded Venice Biennale in 1897 and 1899 and considers how the Venetian venture negotiated the need to innovate with the imperative to build up its own reputation. Using hitherto unpublished archival material, it touches upon a number of issues regarding marketing practices, art market flows and the consumption of art at the international level.
Dossier Ricerche di S/confine, 2018
The Venice Biennale provides many an interesting, and sometimes contradictory array of issues lin... more The Venice Biennale provides many an interesting, and sometimes contradictory array of issues linked to the history of exhibitions, curating, and the importance of display. This paper focuses on the early edition of 1903.
Contrary to earlier Biennali in which sections were organised by nationality, in 1903 the rules of the game were slightly changed: in addition to regional sections as well as ‘international’ sections, the General Secretary Antonio Fradeletto decided to have one star show centring on modern portraiture whilst allowing Italian decorative arts for the first time. This paper focuses the ‘Sala del Ritratto Moderno’ (or 'Room of Modern Portraiture') both as an exhibition strategy and an act of curation. I analyse in particular Fradeletto’s choice of artists, the decoration of the room and the critical perspective provided in the catalogue to see how the Sala conveyed more than meets the eye.
By mostly using unpublished archival sources (ASAC), I aim to restore some ‘historical density’, to borrow Lawrence Alloway’s terminology, to the curatorial and strategic history of the early Venice Biennale.
PREDELLA journal of visual arts, issue no. 41-42, 2017 (2018)
PREDELLA Journal of Visual Arts <predella@predella.it>
Predella no. 41-42, 2017 - The "Discovery... more PREDELLA Journal of Visual Arts <predella@predella.it>
Predella no. 41-42, 2017 - The "Discovery" of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
EDITORIALE/EDITORIAL
Gerardo DE SIMONE, Emanuele PELLEGRINI
Musei e identità: un intreccio difficile
MONOGRAFIA/MONOGRAPH
The «Discovery» of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
Louise BOURDUA
The «Discovery» of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century. Introduction
COLLECTORS, CONNOISSEURS AND ART HISTORIANS
Sam SMILES
The Fate of the Manetti Chapel and the Reception of Trecento Art in Britain, 1770s to 1890s
Anita F. MOSKOVITZ
Discovering the Trecento: American Mavericks in the Market. Who, Where, Why, and Why Not
Corina MEYER
Working on «Depth of Thought» and «Serious Gravity»
Corentin DURY
Evariste Fouret (1807-1863): A French Collector, Amateur and Connoisseur of Trecento Painting
Julia M. NAUHAUS
Bernhard August Von Lindenau’s Collection of Early Italian Panel Paintings
Paul TUCKER
Trecento «Characteristic» and «Grotesque»: Frederic Burton, Charles Fairfax Murray and Early Sienese Painting in the National Gallery 1874-94
Martina BECATTINI
La Stanza del Trecento nel Museo Stibbert di Firenze
Laura FENELLI
Le Campora, 1908: Discovering a Trecento Fresco Cycle
ARTISTS
Hayley FLYNN
Dante’s Topographer: William Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
Kathleen McLAUCHLAN
A Problematic Attraction: French Artists and the Primitive at the French Academy in Rome
Antonella BELLIN
Carl Blaas e i Nazareni a Roma
Alan CROOKHAM
Another Piece of the Mosaic. Trecento Influences on The Albert Memorial
Laura LOMBARDI
La riscoperta della tradizione medioevale nella scultura francese dopo il 1870. «Les véritables origines de la Renaissance»
Lyrica TAYLOR
«My Beloved Masaccio and Giotto and All The Rest of the Blessed Company»: Winifred Margaret Knights and the Rediscovery of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
OTHER CONTEXTS: CULTURE & THE MARKET
Elisa CAMPOREALE
In Homes and Novels: Early Italian Pictures in England from Early Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
Assunta DE CRESCENZO
Foscolo’s Parallel Between Dante and Petrarch: A Perfect Harmony of Contrasts
Roberto RISSO
«Sotto il sembiante d’una pacata mestizia…». La cacciata del Duca d’Atene dal Medioevo all’Ottocento fra cronaca, affresco, narrazione e pittura
Chiara MORICONI
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Salutatio Beatricis: Tradition as Translation
Marie TAVINOR
John Ruskin: A New Saint Francis of Assisi? Ruskin’s Critical Reception in Italy and The Origins of the ‘Renaissance’
Lynn CATTERSON
American Collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for Trequattrocento Florence
Robert GIBBS
A 21st-Century Invention of a 19th-Century Giotto Revival: The ‘Stendhal Syndrome’
MISCELLANEA/MISCELLANY
FIGURE
Alba BARCELÓ
Iluminando la décima plaga de Egipto: la muerte de los primogénitos en el programa pictórico de las Haggadot medievales catalanas, particularidades e influencias
Rudolf SCHIER
Sailing to Byzantium. Giorgione’s Three Philosophers
Claudia LA MALFA
I campanili di Raffaello
Cristina GAGLIONE
Il gioco di carte alla corte degli Este: analisi di un dipinto di Dosso sulla base della rilettura degli inventari estensi
CUSPIDE
Ilaria TADDEO
Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver
Gianpasquale GRECO
Un angolo di Toscana a Roma: la Cappella di Carlo Lambardi «Nobilis Aretinus» in Santa Maria in Via
Chiara MINARDI
Nicolas Guillaume De La Fleur (1595/1600-1663): un pittore lorenese tra Roma e la Francia in età barocca
Laurent GRISON
Ingres et le mythe d'Œdipe
CORNICE
Giulia INGARAO
The Alcove: an interior with three figures.
Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst E Leonor Fini – Saint Martin D’ardèche 1938/1940
Francesca PIROZZI
Il senso di Luigi Ontani per la maestria della ceramica e delle arti popolari
IN LIBRERIA
Paul TUCKER
Titling and the Individuation of Artworks
Review of: Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Picture Titles. How and Why Western Paintings Acquired their Names, Princeton University Press, 2015
Eliana CARRARA
Scrivere d’arte nel Cinquecento
Recensione di Émilie Passignat (a cura di), Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell’arte, Roma, Carocci, 2017
Silvia MASSA
Orlando Grosso e l’arte genovese tra musei civici e connoisseurship
Recensione di Andrea Leonardi, Arte antica in mostra. Rinascimento e Barocco genovesi negli anni di Orlando Grosso (1908-1948), Firenze, Edifir, 2016
Gigetta DALLI REGOLI
Les Cahiers de l’Ornement/2
Recensione di Les Cahiers de l’Ornement 2, a cura di P.Caye e F.Solinas, Roma, De Luca, 2016
Marco BRUNETTI
Artestorie. Le professioni della storia dell’arte
Recensione di M. S. Bottai, S. Cecchini, N. Mandarano (a cura di), Artestorie. Le professioni della storia dell’arte, Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario 2016
Quand la Biennale de Venise était marchande
Le Journal des Arts, 2017
La formazione del giudizio estetico-critico di Vittorio Pica sull’arte britannica: pittura, grafica e illustrazionefra le pagine di «Emporium»
L'officina internazionale di Vittorio Pica, Arte moderna e critica d'arte in Italia (1880-1930), 2017
Questo contributo intende approfondire un campo sinora trascurato dell’attività critica di Vittor... more Questo contributo intende approfondire un campo sinora trascurato dell’attività critica di Vittorio Pica: i suoi interessi per l’arte britannica contemporanea. Sebbene sua madre, Annie James, fosse inglese, sembra che la sua conoscenza della lingua di Shakespeare fosse piuttosto limitata. Allo stesso modo non sembra che abbia mai visitato la Gran Bretagna. Perché, allora, scegliere, un campo d’interesse così circoscritto nell’ampia attività critica di Pica? Questo contributo si avvale di materiali mai analizzati prima, con l’intento di precisare in che modo Pica si accostò a una produzione artistica fin lì poco conosciuta in Italia, per seguire quindi la maturazione del suo giudizio estetico-critico attraverso le pagine di «Emporium». Quest’indagine si limita alla pittura, alla grafica e all’illustrazione in Gran Bretagna fra il 1895 e il 1926, per presentare un corpus coerente e omogeneo, così come esso apparve ai lettori della rivista bergamasca.
The Reception of British Painting at the Venice Biennali, 1895-1914: Politics or Aesthetics
International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 2016
The opening of the Venice Biennale in 1895 provided an unprecedented occasion to bring internatio... more The opening of the Venice Biennale in 1895 provided an unprecedented occasion to bring international art to the Italian public. It thus enabled intellectuals, art critics and the wider population to see and judge national productions side by side. This article looks at the way biases developed along with the Biennale and the peculiar political situation in Europe. By looking at articles written by leading Italian art critics on newspapers and magazines such as Emporium, Fanfulla della Domenica, Il Marzocco or Illustrazione italiana, this article shows that art often served as a pretext for a deeper reading into political interplays and ultimately pointed to the rising conflict between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente which resulted in the First World War.
Conference Organisation by Marie Tavinor
Dissertation by Marie Tavinor
Apart from a few notable exceptions, British painters from the late Victorian and Edwardian perio... more Apart from a few notable exceptions, British painters from the late Victorian and Edwardian periods have suffered from the modernist historiography which deemed it parochial and unworthy of study. Recent developments in art history have generally revised such scathing opinion and have sought to reassess the artistic quality of many pre-WWI British painters.
While riding this wave of reappraisals, this dissertation is less interested in entering the aesthetic debate than disputing the domestic nature of late Victorian and Edwardian art. Indeed, by drawing from an interdisciplinary approach including cultural studies, cultural economics and art history, the present study aims at contextualising late Victorian and Edwardian painting in an international artistic environment in order to assess its critical and commercial success.
Due to its dual nature as exhibition and commercial platform as well as some strong Anglophile leaning in its early period, the Venice Biennale arguably provides an ideal case study. Over its eleven pre-war editions running between 1895 and 1914, it gradually shifted from late-comer to reference point in the international artistic arena. Chartering the evolution of the presence, reception and commercial results of British painters at Venice, this dissertation intends to shed more light on a sample of circa three hundred artists and their place within a segment of the international Belle époque art market.
Conferences by Marie Tavinor
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“The Venice Biennale and the Art Market”, London, IESA; Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, UK, 3-5 February 2016
This talk will address the role of the Venice Biennial in the emergence of art markets in new geo... more This talk will address the role of the Venice Biennial in the emergence of art markets in new geoaesthetic regions. The biennial has played a crucial role in providing visibility, legitimacy and recognition for new geo-aesthetic regions, thereby launching the careers of individual artists from these regions internationally. The recognition and visibility which these artists achieved in Venice has subsequently been converted into economic value, first in the global art market's centers, and later on also in these artists' local markets. Thus the biennial constitutes a crucial stage in market emergence. The talk will locate this stage in a wider, multi-faceted process which has enabled markets for contemporary art to develop in new geo-aesthetic regions, from practically non-existent 30 years ago, to flourishing nowadays. Empirically, I will draw on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in a crosscomparative research project on the emergence of art markets in Brazil,
Drafts by Marie Tavinor
This draft article summarises some of the key takeaways from Christie's historic auction of Beepl... more This draft article summarises some of the key takeaways from Christie's historic auction of Beeple's The 5000 First Days on 11 March 2021 for a hammer price of $60.25m (the buyer's premium was $69.3m). The main question arising from this sale is whether a new democratic and decentralised era of NFT-secured collecting opens up in the art market or whether it will only further benefit a handful of elite investors. More broadly, this sale invites the art world to think about the use of NFTs, and perhaps more broadly to examine how blockchain technology could be used advantageously.
Papers by Marie Tavinor
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
This special issue focuses on one of the most longstanding, international, and large scale exhibi... more This special issue focuses on one of the most longstanding, international, and large scale exhibitions: the Venice Biennale. The keywords 'art', 'agency' and 'market' act as methodological pathways to investigate the evolution of its rich visual library. The texts offer a diachronic approach highlighting significant points of friction and continuity. Marie Tavinor and Davide Lacagnina focus on the first two general secretaries Antonio Fradeletto and Vittorio Pica, who greatly contributed to shaping the institution. Giuliana Tomasella investigates the case of painter Alberto Salietti's market success at the Biennale in 1942. Both Cristina Beltrami through the decorative arts, and Clarissa Ricci through the attempts at reopening the Biennale sales office, look into the complex relationship of the Venice Biennale with the art market. Lastly, a critical review of the large archival exhibition 'Le Muse Inquiete/The Disquieted Muses' held in Venice in 2020, reflects on the Biennale's complex and fascinating history. RIASSUNTO Questo numero speciale é dedicato alla Biennale di Venezia, una delle più longeve e durature esposizioni internazionali d'arte. I testi offrono una visione diacronica, mettendo in luce alcuni momenti significativi di rottura e/o continuità dell'evoluzione della Biennale. I percorsi metodologici messi in campo per indagarne la complessità sono riassunti dalle parole chiave 'arte', 'mercato' e 'agency'. Marie Tavinor e Davide Lacagnina rivolgono la loro attenzione alle figure di Antonio Fradeletto e Vittorio Pica, i primi due segretari generali che hanno notevolmente contribuito alla crescita dell'istituzione veneziana. Diversamente invece Giuliana Tomasella indaga il caso del successo di mercato di Alberto Salietti alla Biennale del 1942. Mentre Cristina Beltrami, attraverso le arti decorative, e Clarissa Ricci, con i tentativi di riapertura dell'ufficio vendite della biennale, affrontano la complessa relazione della Biennale di Venezia con il mercato dell'arte. Infine, la recensione sulla mostra d'a archivio Le Muse Inquiete (2020) offre una riflessione critica sull'affascinante e articolata storia della Biennale di Venezia.
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Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2021
Inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s painting exhibited in Venice in 1948, the exhibition Le Muse Inq... more Inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s painting exhibited in Venice in 1948, the exhibition Le Muse Inquiete (The Disquieted Muses) celebrated the Venice Biennale’s 125th anniversary. Held in the central pavilion, this was the first archival exhibition jointly organised by the directors of all artistic sectors of the Biennale: visual arts, cinema, theatre, dance, architecture and music. A wealth of material including letters, posters, videos, photographs and in some cases also artworks hinted at the Biennale’s extensive visual history. The exhibition showcased institutional memory filtered through the narrative prism of encounters between the muses, daughters of Mnemosyne, the god of memory, and key historical episodes. The timespan started in the 1920s, presented both as a moment of historical upheaval and a turning point for the Biennale with the creation of its archives, or the institutionalisation of its own memory. This review explores the exhibition’s narrative choices and shows its strategic dimension in light of the Biennale’s new directorship, i.e. the strong emphasis on the institution’s multidisciplinary nature and the role of its archive.
Book Reviews by Marie Tavinor
Society for the History of Collecting Newsletter, 2023
Book Review: The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Journal of Visual Resources, 2022
This is the first extensive publication dedicated to the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, ... more This is the first extensive publication dedicated to the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, originally built in 1958 and restored in 2018. The book mainly focuses on the architectural history of the Canada pavilion from early conceptual designs to its recent restoration. However, it goes beyond important architectural discussions to encompass the relationship between visual art and architecture, and the complex organisation presiding over national representation at the Venice Biennale. This review seeks to summarise the main contributions that this publication brings to the field, while contextualising the fascinating history of the Canada pavilion within the strategic and cultural contexts of post-war Italy and the Venice Biennale.
Review of Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950
Society for History of Collecting, 2021
Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950: Ed. Christel H. Force,... more Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850-1950: Ed. Christel H. Force, 2020. London : Bloomsbury, 288pp., 16 colour & 56 b/w illustrations. Hardback £90, Paperback £24.99, eBook and/or EPUB £81. ISBN 9781501342769 (hardback), ISBN 9781350282841 (paperback), ISBN 9781501342776 (eBook), ISBN 9781501342783 (eBook & EPUB)
This book, edited by Christel H. Force and published as part of the growing Bloomsbury series on ‘Contextualising Art Markets’ edited by Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University) dissects the dealer networks responsible for disseminating French modernism internationally, from its beginnings to its solidification as a key part of the art historical canon. The timespan of 1850 to 1950 enables the authors to scrutinise every development of the aesthetic shift, from the Barbizon school to the ‘isms’ which took pride of place in the artistic hierarchy over time. Paris is presented as the centre of this revolution which radiated outward to the rest of the world, not just in Europe and North America, but also to Asia and South America.
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RIASSUNTO ITALIANO
Antonio Fradeletto (1858-1930), primo segretario generale della Biennale dal 1895 al 1914, viene generalmente descritto, insieme a Riccardo Selvatico, sindaco di Venezia e presidente dell’istituzione, quale figura determinante nella definizione della direzione artistica e commerciale dell’esposizione. Duranti i primi anni, denominati ‘eroici’, il segretario generale concentrò il potere nelle sue mani, occupandosi tanto di curare alcune esposizioni, quanto di gestire le sedi e promuovere le vendite. Oltretutto Fradeletto venne eletto deputato presso il Parlamento di Roma, cosa che non gli impedì di trovare il tempo di impegnarsi in attività intellettuali e letterarie. Il testo intende dunque indagare Antonio Fradeletto come un caso studio ‘egocentrico’ capace di estendere oltre i confini nazionali il ruolo di agente della Biennale di Venezia. In particolare, attraverso la sua riconosciuta anglofilia, che portò Fradeletto a supportare la sezione Britannica, l’indagine mette in luce le trattative e i compromessi avvenuti dietro le quinte, e il modo in cui Fradeletto abbia realizzato la propria idea di Biennale, facendo prevalere le sue preferenze personali. Più in generale questa specifica prospettiva consente di indagare fino a che punto pregiudizi politici e culturali possano influenzare lo sviluppo di un’istituzione culturale come la Biennale.
Saint-Lambert
This special issue of the Journal Luxury, History, Culture, Consumption stems from a conference which took place in July 2019 at Christie’s Education in London. The conference coincided with Christie’s Classic Week (4-11 July 2019), a metaphorical time capsule concentrating luxury objects from Antiquity to the present day before they are dispersed through the circular economy.
The conference theme, ‘Recycling Luxury’, aimed at probing these two topical concepts from a historical perspective and examining them through their apparent dialectical tensions. My introduction aimed to look at the etymologycal origins of the concepts of 'Luxury' and 'Recycling' and to question their (absence of) historical connections.
A prominent art dealer operating between Paris and New York during the interwar years, René Gimpel (1881-1945) kept a diary which was first published in 1963 and then republished in an extended version in 2011. Using the diary as a tool, albeit acknowledging its sometimes problematic nature as literary object, Diana J. Kostyrko seeks to frame Gimpel’s life and business activity in a vast transdisciplinary account. This valuable book, the second in Harvey Miller’s series on Collectors and Dealers, fills some important historiographic gaps in the history of collecting, the history of the art market and more broadly sheds light on the rise of modernity.
Contrary to earlier Biennali in which sections were organised by nationality, in 1903 the rules of the game were slightly changed: in addition to regional sections as well as ‘international’ sections, the General Secretary Antonio Fradeletto decided to have one star show centring on modern portraiture whilst allowing Italian decorative arts for the first time. This paper focuses the ‘Sala del Ritratto Moderno’ (or 'Room of Modern Portraiture') both as an exhibition strategy and an act of curation. I analyse in particular Fradeletto’s choice of artists, the decoration of the room and the critical perspective provided in the catalogue to see how the Sala conveyed more than meets the eye.
By mostly using unpublished archival sources (ASAC), I aim to restore some ‘historical density’, to borrow Lawrence Alloway’s terminology, to the curatorial and strategic history of the early Venice Biennale.
Predella no. 41-42, 2017 - The "Discovery" of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
EDITORIALE/EDITORIAL
Gerardo DE SIMONE, Emanuele PELLEGRINI
Musei e identità: un intreccio difficile
MONOGRAFIA/MONOGRAPH
The «Discovery» of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
Louise BOURDUA
The «Discovery» of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century. Introduction
COLLECTORS, CONNOISSEURS AND ART HISTORIANS
Sam SMILES
The Fate of the Manetti Chapel and the Reception of Trecento Art in Britain, 1770s to 1890s
Anita F. MOSKOVITZ
Discovering the Trecento: American Mavericks in the Market. Who, Where, Why, and Why Not
Corina MEYER
Working on «Depth of Thought» and «Serious Gravity»
Corentin DURY
Evariste Fouret (1807-1863): A French Collector, Amateur and Connoisseur of Trecento Painting
Julia M. NAUHAUS
Bernhard August Von Lindenau’s Collection of Early Italian Panel Paintings
Paul TUCKER
Trecento «Characteristic» and «Grotesque»: Frederic Burton, Charles Fairfax Murray and Early Sienese Painting in the National Gallery 1874-94
Martina BECATTINI
La Stanza del Trecento nel Museo Stibbert di Firenze
Laura FENELLI
Le Campora, 1908: Discovering a Trecento Fresco Cycle
ARTISTS
Hayley FLYNN
Dante’s Topographer: William Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
Kathleen McLAUCHLAN
A Problematic Attraction: French Artists and the Primitive at the French Academy in Rome
Antonella BELLIN
Carl Blaas e i Nazareni a Roma
Alan CROOKHAM
Another Piece of the Mosaic. Trecento Influences on The Albert Memorial
Laura LOMBARDI
La riscoperta della tradizione medioevale nella scultura francese dopo il 1870. «Les véritables origines de la Renaissance»
Lyrica TAYLOR
«My Beloved Masaccio and Giotto and All The Rest of the Blessed Company»: Winifred Margaret Knights and the Rediscovery of the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century
OTHER CONTEXTS: CULTURE & THE MARKET
Elisa CAMPOREALE
In Homes and Novels: Early Italian Pictures in England from Early Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
Assunta DE CRESCENZO
Foscolo’s Parallel Between Dante and Petrarch: A Perfect Harmony of Contrasts
Roberto RISSO
«Sotto il sembiante d’una pacata mestizia…». La cacciata del Duca d’Atene dal Medioevo all’Ottocento fra cronaca, affresco, narrazione e pittura
Chiara MORICONI
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Salutatio Beatricis: Tradition as Translation
Marie TAVINOR
John Ruskin: A New Saint Francis of Assisi? Ruskin’s Critical Reception in Italy and The Origins of the ‘Renaissance’
Lynn CATTERSON
American Collecting, Stefano Bardini & the Taste for Trequattrocento Florence
Robert GIBBS
A 21st-Century Invention of a 19th-Century Giotto Revival: The ‘Stendhal Syndrome’
MISCELLANEA/MISCELLANY
FIGURE
Alba BARCELÓ
Iluminando la décima plaga de Egipto: la muerte de los primogénitos en el programa pictórico de las Haggadot medievales catalanas, particularidades e influencias
Rudolf SCHIER
Sailing to Byzantium. Giorgione’s Three Philosophers
Claudia LA MALFA
I campanili di Raffaello
Cristina GAGLIONE
Il gioco di carte alla corte degli Este: analisi di un dipinto di Dosso sulla base della rilettura degli inventari estensi
CUSPIDE
Ilaria TADDEO
Some Observations on “Michele Grechi Lucchese” Painter and Engraver
Gianpasquale GRECO
Un angolo di Toscana a Roma: la Cappella di Carlo Lambardi «Nobilis Aretinus» in Santa Maria in Via
Chiara MINARDI
Nicolas Guillaume De La Fleur (1595/1600-1663): un pittore lorenese tra Roma e la Francia in età barocca
Laurent GRISON
Ingres et le mythe d'Œdipe
CORNICE
Giulia INGARAO
The Alcove: an interior with three figures.
Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst E Leonor Fini – Saint Martin D’ardèche 1938/1940
Francesca PIROZZI
Il senso di Luigi Ontani per la maestria della ceramica e delle arti popolari
IN LIBRERIA
Paul TUCKER
Titling and the Individuation of Artworks
Review of: Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Picture Titles. How and Why Western Paintings Acquired their Names, Princeton University Press, 2015
Eliana CARRARA
Scrivere d’arte nel Cinquecento
Recensione di Émilie Passignat (a cura di), Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell’arte, Roma, Carocci, 2017
Silvia MASSA
Orlando Grosso e l’arte genovese tra musei civici e connoisseurship
Recensione di Andrea Leonardi, Arte antica in mostra. Rinascimento e Barocco genovesi negli anni di Orlando Grosso (1908-1948), Firenze, Edifir, 2016
Gigetta DALLI REGOLI
Les Cahiers de l’Ornement/2
Recensione di Les Cahiers de l’Ornement 2, a cura di P.Caye e F.Solinas, Roma, De Luca, 2016
Marco BRUNETTI
Artestorie. Le professioni della storia dell’arte
Recensione di M. S. Bottai, S. Cecchini, N. Mandarano (a cura di), Artestorie. Le professioni della storia dell’arte, Cisalpino Istituto Editoriale Universitario 2016
Conference Organisation by Marie Tavinor
Dissertation by Marie Tavinor
While riding this wave of reappraisals, this dissertation is less interested in entering the aesthetic debate than disputing the domestic nature of late Victorian and Edwardian art. Indeed, by drawing from an interdisciplinary approach including cultural studies, cultural economics and art history, the present study aims at contextualising late Victorian and Edwardian painting in an international artistic environment in order to assess its critical and commercial success.
Due to its dual nature as exhibition and commercial platform as well as some strong Anglophile leaning in its early period, the Venice Biennale arguably provides an ideal case study. Over its eleven pre-war editions running between 1895 and 1914, it gradually shifted from late-comer to reference point in the international artistic arena. Chartering the evolution of the presence, reception and commercial results of British painters at Venice, this dissertation intends to shed more light on a sample of circa three hundred artists and their place within a segment of the international Belle époque art market.
Conferences by Marie Tavinor
Drafts by Marie Tavinor
Papers by Marie Tavinor
Book Reviews by Marie Tavinor
This book, edited by Christel H. Force and published as part of the growing Bloomsbury series on ‘Contextualising Art Markets’ edited by Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University) dissects the dealer networks responsible for disseminating French modernism internationally, from its beginnings to its solidification as a key part of the art historical canon. The timespan of 1850 to 1950 enables the authors to scrutinise every development of the aesthetic shift, from the Barbizon school to the ‘isms’ which took pride of place in the artistic hierarchy over time. Paris is presented as the centre of this revolution which radiated outward to the rest of the world, not just in Europe and North America, but also to Asia and South America.