An American Painter in Venice

Ralph W. Curtis and the Palazzo Barbaro
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-52914-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

A biography of the American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922), of the Boston family who bought the Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1885. After graduating at Harvard, Curtis moved to Paris to study art with Carolus Duran, where he met his distant cousin John S. Sargent, with whom he travelled to Holland to see Franz Hals’s paintings. He exhibited at the Paris salons, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, at the Venice Biennale in the 1880s. At Palazzo Barbaro he met Robert Browning, Henry James, but also Venetian painters such as Ettore Tito and Antonio Mancini. He travelled widely, even to Japan and India. His works are in American Museums and private collections.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barisoni, Elisabetta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations XI

Introduction

1 Ralph Wormeley Curtis, the Painter

2 The Beginnings. Boston, Cambridge, Newport

3 Paris and Europe

4 Rome

5 Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro

6 Venice, Whistler and Sargent

7 Venice and the Esposizione Nazionale of 1887

8 Isabella Stewart Gardner

9 Japan and India

10 Marriage and the New Century

11 “The Verdict” by Edith Wharton: The End of a Painter

Appendix: Curtis’s Notes on the 1879 Munich Exhibition

Ralph Curtis and Venice. The Golden Hours

Bibliography

Index of Names
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