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'La Maggior Porcheria Del Mondo': Documents For Ammannati's Neptune Fountain, Felicia M. Else

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

The story of the creation of the Neptune Fountain on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence is long and tortuous. Scholars have drawn on a wealth of documentary material regarding the competition for the commission, the various phases of the fountain's construction, and the critical reception of its colossus, both political and aesthetic. A collection of unpublished letters at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles offers a new perspective on the making of this major public monument. Sent by Bartolomeo Ammannati to the prvveditore of Pisa, they chronicle the artist's involvement in the procurement and transportation of marble from …

Three Paths To Abstraction (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Leslie Luebbers, Joseph Mella

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Catalogue published for the exhibition, Three Paths to Abstraction, which featured the work of Pinkney Herbert, Whitney Leland, and Carol Mode. The exhibition also traveled to the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis.

The paintings of these three Tennessee artists exemplify the diversity, energy, optimism, exhilaration, and meditative properties that encompass and define abstraction.