The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860

Irma B. Jaffe

Pages: 249

Hardback
ISBN: 9780823212491
Published: 01 January 1989
$70.00
Fordham University Press
Fordham University Press
The Italian Presence in American Art is a wide-ranging examination of aspects of American art that owe an important debt to Italy and Italian artists.

“A beautifully-done group of studies with an important theme. Highly recommended for all college and university art history collections.”---—Academic Library Book Review

“An impressive and well-documented case for the crucial role of an Italian presence in the art of the American colonies and the United States between the pre-Revolutionary generation and the Civil War.”---—Eighteenth Century Studies