Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master

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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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PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date November 2007 (out of print)

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List of illustrations

View of Naples with Vesuvius
Street in Naples, Basso Porto area
The Street Urchin (Lo scugnizzo)
The Little Seminarian (Il prevetariello)
Albert Cahen d'Anvers (1846–1903)
After the Duel (Dopo il duello)
Street boys in Naples
Circus Boy
Portrait of a Child
Saltimbanco After the Performance
Scugnizzo with Crucifix
Children and Toys (Poveri che si dilettano con le gioie dei ricchi)
The Poor Schoolboy (Le petit écolier)
The Vow (Il voto)
Studying (Lo studio)
Low Tide (Acque basse)
Truth (La verità)
Boy with Toy Soldiers
Il malatino con fior di mandorlo
Almond Blossoms (Fiore di mandorlo)
Girl with White Veil
Girl with Yellow Scarf (Bambina con fazzoletto giallo)
The Saltimbanco (Il saltimbanco)
Man of Sorrows
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait with Visor
Little Saltimbanque Musicians
Young Bacchus (Bacco)
Vincenzo Gemito
Self-Portrait
Antonio Mancini
Girl Studying (Bambina che legge)
Reading (La lettura)
Adieu Paris (The Customs)
Coral Seller (La corallaia)
For Sale (Si vende)
Self-Portrait with Basket
Self-Portrait with Straw
Self-Portrait with Tinsel Crown
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Children on a Sunny Beach (Beach at Mergellina)
Self-Portrait with Dedication
Young Shepherd in Leggings (Pastorello in ciocie)
The Standard Bearer of the Harvest Festival
Hendrik Willem Mesdag in his house
The Statue Seller (Il piccolo antiquario)
The Maker of Figures (Portrait of the Artist's Father)
Young Boy
In the Boudoir
Madness, Art, and Poverty
The Coppersmith (Il calderaio)
The Model
The Seller of Statues (Il venditore di statue)
Man with a Parrot (L'homme au perroquet)
Resting
Pensativa
Lost in Thought
Woman with an Album
The Marquis Giorgio Capranica del Grillo in his Rome studio
The Marquis Giorgio Capranica del Grillo
Antonio Mancini, seated with his nephew Alfredo, painting with the use of the graticola
Via Margutta, Rome
Signora Pantaleoni
Tired Out (Le due bambole)
William Marriott Welch
Antonio Mancini at Temple, near Henley, England
Sylvia Hunter
Portrait of Gérome Caccamisi
Two Cousins (Le due cugine)
Saint John the Baptist
Old Woman Drinking Tea
Sir Hugh Lane
Elizabeth and Charles Hedworth Williamson with Dog
Antonio Mancini painting Hugh Lane's sister, Mrs. Shine, Dublin
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Antonio Mancini
Antonio Mancini with Baron Otto Messinger on the terrace of the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome
Minstrel (The White Page)
The Seamstress (La cucitrice)
Antonio Mancini in his studio
In Giardino
Antonio Mancini with Vincenzo Gemito at the Villa Casciaro, Naples
Antonio Mancini in his Viale Liegi studio
Self-Portrait
Gypsies
Lady in Red (Dama in rosso)
Antonio Mancini, flanked by his nephew Alfredo and the latter's wife Maria
Self-Portrait with Autobiographical Script
Antonio Mancini
Self-Portrait
Antonio Mancini in Paris
Self-Portrait
Antonio Mancini in Berlin
Antonio Mancini (left) with Giuseppe Casciaro and Vincenzo Gemito at the Villa Casciaro
Vance N. Jordan
Foyer of Vance N. Jordan's New York apartment
Corner of Vance N. Jordan's living room
Corner of Vance N. Jordan's library
Detail from a sideboard in Vance N. Jordan's dining room

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Contents

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Foreword

Anne d’Harnoncourt and Joseph J. Rishel

~At the turn of the twentieth century, Antonio Mancini was a celebrated international figure. The catalogue of the 1899 Venice Biennale described him as follows:

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Anne d’Harnoncourt and Joseph J. Rishel

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Acknowledgments

~A project of this scope inevitably calls on the energies and good will of people in many cities and countries, encompassing curators, collectors, scholars, and museum personnel.

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Antonio Mancini: Artist-Painter

IN A POOR SECTION OF NAPLES one morning in the 1870s, when the painter Antonio Mancini was in his twenties, some of the artist’s friends observed him coming out of a foul little shop on Via Costantinopoli. He had gone there to obtain materials for a new painting, which he habitually did by bartering his most recent...

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Italian--19th centuryPortraits, ItalianArtists and patronsSargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Chronology

Chronology

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Appendix I: Mesdag Letters

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~The following letters, sent from Rome by the painter John J. Jacobson, vividly describe Mancini to patron Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife, Sina van Houten Mesdag. The letters, belonging to a private collection, were originally published in Hanna Pennock in Antonio Mancini en Nederland (see the Selected Bibliography). They have been translated here from...

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Appendix II: Goupil & Cie Records for Antonio Mancini, 1875–78

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~The following entries recording the receipt and sale of works by Antonio Mancini are excerpted from the stock books of the Goupil gallery in Paris from 1875 to 1878. The prices, originally entered in letter code, are translated here according to the company’s numeric key Although unstated...

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Afterword: The Gift of Vance N. Jordan

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~The gift of fifteen major works by Antonio Mancini to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the estate of Vance N. Jordan (1943–2003) provided the impetus for the present publication. Although highly impressive in its own right, this collection represents only a partial reflection of Jordan’s remarkable involvement with the arts that began...

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Checklist of the Exhibition

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