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The Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago / Sylvain Bellenger and Carmine Romano ; with an essay by Jesse Rosenberg and a preface by Riccardo Muti.
- Title
- The Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago / Sylvain Bellenger and Carmine Romano ; with an essay by Jesse Rosenberg and a preface by Riccardo Muti.
- Author
- Art Institute of Chicago author.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
- New Haven, Connecticut : Distributed by Yale University Press
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| Text | Request in advance | N8065 .A78 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 175 pages : color illustrations; 32 cm
- Summary
- "The 18th-century Neapolitan crèche at the Art Institute of Chicago, which contains over 200 figures arranged in a panorama of street life, represents a prime example of this artistic medium. This catalogue is the first to study the crèche in the context of art and music history. Essays explore the Neapolitan crèche tradition and examine the design of Chicago's example with reference to other important crèches in Europe and the United States. Entries on individual figures identify the characters and types they represent, as well as their social and historical meaning and religious significance. Other entries address groups of figures, animals, and cultural themes present in the crèche"--
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Crèches (Nativity scenes) > Italy > Naples > Catalogs
- Art objects, Italian > Italy > Naples > Catalogs
- Art objects > Illinois > Chicago > Catalogs
- Art and music > Italy > Naples > History > 18th century > Catalogs
- ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Figurines
- DESIGN / Decorative Arts
- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
- Art and music
- Art objects
- Art objects, Italian
- Crèches (Nativity scenes)
- Illinois > Chicago
- Italy > Naples
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Sylvain Bellenger and Carmine Romano -- The scenography of the Neapolitan Crèche / Sylvain Bellenger -- Music and the Nativity in eighteenth-century Naples / Jesse Rosenberg -- Diagram of the Crèche -- The Crèche / Carmine Romano.
- ISBN
- 9780300222357
- 0300222351
- LCCN
- ^^2016042069
- OCLC
- 946481642
- SCSB-9963402
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library