Mancini Catalog | Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Finally, Mancini in America | Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master (Philadelphia Museum of Art) | Ulrich W. Hiesinger

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	• Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Ulrich W. Hiesinger Yale University Press, 2007 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My best find of 2007! And I have had a few good ones.

I had seen Mancini's "Resting" at the Art Institute of Chicago for years and marveled at its beauty and its mystery. Who was Antonio Mancini? Cudos to the Art Institute for their insight and willingness to hang this fairly unknown artist on it valuable wall space. This book answers all those questions. Mancini is first and foremost an excellent artist. The closest I can think of might be Fechen (Mancini's later work esp.) Fairly loose with tighter work in the face and hands. Every painting in this book has people as its subject matter. This book goes into detail about the artist fairly difficult life. He had a few mental problems. The reproductions are well done and most are in color. Considering this is the only book in english on the artist, we take what we can get. If you are at all into the current "Clasical Realist" or "Representationist" movement, get this book. You will finish it wanting more. Which is how a great book should be.

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Mancini Catalog

VERY rare opportunity to read a well written review of this artist and his life. After seeing the show, the reproduction leave a little to be desired but most publishers only do an adequate job at this price level. Overall, an excellent buy and tremendous research aid in the study of this enormously talented artist.

Finally, Mancini in America

Mancini is one of the most amazingly unknown artists of the 19th C. The texture that gives his paintings such a powerful presence also makes them impossible to reproduce, but I think this book does a decent job. It is a compelling read -- Mancini's story is very engaging. I hope this marks the beginning of more notice to one of
the greatest talents ever to pick up a paint brush.

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A giant of painting

The reproduction quality of images is very good. This catalogue allows to know some masterpieces of this genius, that like Caravaggio still remains one of the great realist painters.
This is a precious catalogue because it's difficult to find other Mancini publications.
Don't miss it!

Mancini, a painters painter

This is a must have book for any lover of painterly naturalism.
Few artists have ever possessed the combination of the subtleness of Mancini's modelling and sensitive drawing with his highly expressive use of paint. His painterly talents are in par with Titian and Rembrandt. Among more recent painters, he can be compared to Nicolai Fechin. I wonder if Fechin was familiar with Mancini's work; it appears as if he was. However, this book and a book I have on Fechin by Mary N. Balcomb do not mention the link.

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One of Italy?s greatest modern painters, Antonio Mancini (1852?1930) is best known for his daring and innovative painting methods. This overview of his career?the first comprehensive study in English?follows upon the Philadelphia Museum of Art?s recent acquisition of fifteen major oil paintings and pastels by Mancini, including the famous Il Saltimbanco (1877?78), all of which are included in this beautiful volume.

Mancini?s paintings are at once realistic and visionary, and they span a career that brought him from the legendary slums of Naples to Paris, Rome, and English country houses. Of particular interest is Mancini?s relevance to the American art world, where he was once a much-discussed controversial figure, supported by a small group of American patrons and artists before becoming famous in Italy. John Singer Sargent is said to have called Mancini the greatest living painter.

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