Irma B. Jaffe’s books include Joseph Stella; Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution; The Italian Presence in American Art; Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets; and Giuseppe Betussi and Eleanora Falletti, Polygraph and Poet at the Dawn of Popular Literature. The recipient of many awards and grants, she founded the department of Art and Music at Fordham University, where she is Professor Emerita of Art History.
These 16 separate essays probe into and beyond our generally held
recognition of the prominent role Italy and Italians exerted on
painters, sculptors, and architects of our new world.
Palladianism--by way of England, to be sure--first touched the
colonies and new republic. Here Palladianism and the following
classicism in American sculpture and architecture are examined
afresh. Matters of less currency include the frustrations of
Rembrandt Peale and S.F.B. Morse abroad, Harriet Hosmer's problems
with her Zenobia, the young Elihu Vedder as "macchiaiolo," the
collectors of early Italian art--Bryan and Jarvis, the Italian
sculptors and painters imported to adorn the US Capitol, and the
place of "the Italianate villa" (on which further clarification is
needed) in American architecture. Many of these essays pose new
questions not previously addressed in the critical treatments of
painters and sculptors of the period. For upper-division
undergraduate and graduate students.
*—Choice*
“. . . offers an unmatched combination of a well-integrated text
and sumptuous illustrations.”
*—Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas*
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