The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art on December 6, 1949. Inspired by Paul and Mary Mellon, they were intended to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts. The first lectures were delivered by Jacques Maritain in 1952. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the acclaimed series, CASVA published this richly illustrated documentary volume. In her introduction Elizabeth Cropper tells the story of the realization of the Gallery's vision for the series. Short essays by a distinguished group of contemporary scholars discuss the first fifty lecturers, ranging from Jacques Maritain to Salvatore Settis (2001) and including such influential speakers as Anthony Blunt (1958), Kenneth Clark (1953), H. W. Janson (1974), E. H. Gombrich (1956), Kathleen Raine (1962), Jacques Barzun (1973), and Arthur Danto (1995); their fields of expertise; and the subject matter and historical contexts of their talks. These graceful and balanced assessments, which are supplemented by photographic portraits and brief curricula vitae, provide a vivid sense of the significance of the lectureship and its participants through commentary, critique, and lively personal anecdotes. Published by the National Gallery of Art and distributed by Yale University Press.
This thirteen-volume series provides an annual record of research projects in the history of art and related disciplines sponsored by public and private foundations around the world during the period 1980–1994.
This volume is a collection of papers presented at an international conference, cosponsored by CASVA and the École du Louvre, held in Paris on October 29–31, 1984. The contributors are an international group of Watteau scholars and students of the period that includes the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the Régence. The essays consider theater, the arts, dance, music, and fashion from Watteau's time, enabling us to understand better the artist's milieu, what he took from it, what he contributed to it, and also how the "myth" of Watteau was created. Published by Champion-Slatkine.
The National Gallery of Art exhibition The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (December 1986–January 1987) provided an opportunity to study works that reside in diverse collections or that had been newly discovered or recently attributed to Emilian painters. This publication resulted from a symposium held on January 29–30, 1987, which brought together an international group of speakers and participants to discuss topics from attribution to the foundations of the reform of painting and style in early modern Emilia.