The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander
1837-1917
$100.91
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2025
Summary
This is the first book to examine the art and life of Boston-born artist Francesca Alexander (1837–1917). Francesca and her parents moved to Florence in 1853 and became part of a thriving international community. She was a largely self-taught artist, and both her art and writing focused on Italians and Italian life. Her portraits and nature studies, and her translations of songs and stories, were much admired by her contemporaries, including John Ruskin, who published three of her manuscripts…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848226364 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1848226365 |
| Author: | Jacqueline Marie Musacchio |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 982g |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 190mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘Jacqueline Marie Musacchio’s thoughtful biography The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander 1837–1917 (2025) brings the artist’s story out of the shadows and illuminates the fascinating cross-cultural context in which she worked.’ Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic
‘Her Italian life and her relationships, traced through … scrapbooks, with letters, diaries, guidebooks, newspapers and magazines, provide a vivid picture of Alexander’s place in her own times, along with a valuable and detailed account of Anglo-American life in Florence at a particularly significant period in modern Italian history.’ Charlotte Gere, The Art Newspaper
About The Author
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio is Professor of Art at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. A specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, and Americans in nineteenth-century Italy, her previous publications include the books The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy (1999) and Art, Marriage, and Family in the Florentine Renaissance Palace (2008) as well as articles and essays on the Anglo-American population of Italy.
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