Building an Idea McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome Building an Idea McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome 1914-2014 Edited by Marida Talamona and Peter Benson Miller Table of Contents Mark Robbins Canons 7 Peter Benson Miller Building an Idea 11 Marida Talamona McKim, Mead & White: Building the American Academy on the Janiculum Hill, 1911-1914 29 Barry Bergdoll Intellectual Acropoli in Dialogue: New York and Rome 69 Francesca Romana Stabile Filippo Galassi and L’Arte moderna del fabbricare 89 Lindsay Harris “An Ever-Widening Circle”: Rome and its Artistic Community circa 1914 121 Sebastian Hierl The Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library 143 Adele Chatfield-Taylor and Cristina Puglisi On the Preservation of the McKim, Mead & White Building 151 Paola Porretta Abbreviations AAR Archives American Academy in Rome, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC AAR Photographic Archive American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive, Rome ACSArchivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome ANR Archivio Notarile di Roma ASCArchivio Storico Capitolino, Rome ASR Archivio di Stato di Roma Drawings and Archives Collections, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York Fragments from the Ancient Landscape: the Aurelian Wall the Aqua Traiana 171 Federica Causarano Archival Sources in Rome 195 Index of names Acknowledgements Image credits 209 212 216 american academy in rome We are particularly grateful to MAXXI Architettura, and to Caterina Carletti Galassi for her kind permission to reproduce material from the Fondo Galassi on extended loan to the Archivio di Stato di Roma. This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition organized under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy Special thanks to: Cinzia Abbate, Paolo Alei, Laura Armiero, Cono Aldo Barnà, Maria Temide Bergamaschi, Mario Bevilacqua, Jeffrey Blanchard, Orsola Bonifati, Maria Bonmassar, Vincent J. Buonanno, Cecilia Burla, Pippo Ciorra, Jean-Louis Cohen, Pablo Castro Estevez, Carole Ann Fabian, Vincenzo Frustaci, Maria Antonella Fusco, Patrizia Gori, Victoria de Grazia, Margherita Guccione, Mari Yoko Hara, Lindsay Harris, Tullia Iori, Eugenio Lo Sardo, Ginevra Mariani, Elisabetta Pallottino, Giovanni Panebianco, Maria Antonietta Quesada, Mariarosaria Senofonte, Elena Tinacci, Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, Carlo Vigevano, and the entire staff and community of the American Academy in Rome, including Giulia Barra, Gianpaolo Battaglia, Paolo Brozzi, Francesco Cagnizzi, Tina Cancemi, Anna Celenza, Giulia Ciccarello, Lavinia Ciuffa, Inga Clausing, Emiliano Di Carlo, Enrico Dressler, Maria Sole Fabri, Madi Gandolfo, Denise Gavio, Paolo Imperatori, Caroline Jennings, Marina Lella, Marques McClary, Antonio Palladino, Pina Pasquantonio and Giulia Ravaglioli. Building an Idea: McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome, 1914-2014 American Academy in Rome 21 May – 29 June 2014 Organized in collaboration with the Archivio di Stato di Roma, the Archivio Storico Capitolino and the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica A project conceived by Peter Benson Miller Exhibition curator: Marida Talamona Exhibition coordinator: Lexi Eberspacher Assistant to the curator: Federica Causarano Patronage Exhibition designer: Umberto Riva in collaboration with Emilio Scarano Installation constructed by Edil Tree di Alessio Alaimo Gallery installer: Stefano Silvia Insurance provided by Arte Assicurazioni Transport provided by Apice Frames by Colutto Photographs printed by Irfe Colore Installation photographs by Davide Franceschini – altrospazio Support Catalogue edited by Marida Talamona and Peter Benson Miller Designed and published by Gli ori Translations by Peter Benson Miller, Sylvia Notini and Emanuela Zirzotti Support for this exhibition and catalogue was provided in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The organizers would like to extend their profound gratitude to the following lenders to the exhibition: the Archivio di Stato di Roma, the Archivio Storico Capitolino, the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, the Biblioteca Centrale della Facoltà di Architettura at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” the Biblioteca Romana, the Photographic Archive of the British School at Rome, as well as the Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library and the Photographic Archive, both at the American Academy in Rome, with additional loans from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Morgan Library & Museum, the New York Historical Society and the University of Pennsylvania Archives. 212 Print Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera, Italy © Copyright 2014 American Academy in Rome for the edition, Gli Ori, Pistoia, Italy ISBN 978-88-7336-543-3 All rights reserved 213 american academy in rome Board of Trustees President and CEO Mark Robbins, FAAR’97 Laurie Anderson, RAAR’06 Director Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR’94 Mercedes T. Bass, Vice Chairman Michael Rock, FAAR’00 Cynthia L. Beck John F.W. Rogers Martin Brody, RAAR’02 Vincent J. Buonanno Christopher S. Celenza, FAAR’94, Director* Deputy Director Cristina Puglisi Andrew Heiskell Arts Director Peter Benson Miller Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies Kimberly Bowes, FAAR’06 Drue Heinz Librarian Sebastian Hierl Senior Programs Officer Anne Coulson Programs Associate Lexi Eberspacher Photographic Archive Alessandra Capodiferro, Consulting Curator Lavinia Ciuffa, Consulting Archivist Mark Robbins, FAAR’97, President* Daniel G. Cohen C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12, Chairman of the Executive Committee Louisa Stude Sarofim John M. Shapiro, Vice Chairman Anthony Corbeill, FAAR’95 Laurie Simmons, RAAR’05 Patricia Cronin, FAAR’07* Frank M. Snowden, RAAR’03 Cary J. Davis David M. Stone, FAAR’98 Ginevra Elkann Robert Storr Mary E. Frank Steven Stucky, RAAR’06 Richard L. Grubman Calvin Tsao, RAAR’10 Lyle Ashton Harris, FAAR’01 Rea S. Hederman Drue Heinz Walter J. Hood, FAAR’97 Mary Margaret Jones, FAAR’98, Chair of the Board of Trustees Charles K. Williams, II Tod C. Williams, FAAR’83 Fred Wilson Thomas F. Kelly, FAAR’86, RAAR’02 Life Trustees David A. Lang, FAAR’91 Michael Graves, FAAR’62, RAAR’79 Paul S. Levy Michael C.J. Putnam, FAAR’64, RAAR’70 Thom Mayne William B. McGurn, iii Roberto A. Mignone Valentina Moncada di Paternò Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, RAAR’09 Bruce Nauman, RAAR’87 Nancy G. Novogrod John A. Pinto, FAAR’75, RAAR’06 * ex officio Francine C. Prose, RAAR’96 FAAR Fellow, American Academy in Rome RAAR Resident, American Academy in Rome 214 215 Photography credits Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution 21, 23, 25 Caterina Carletti Galassi 63, 102 American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive 2, 6, 10, 13, 14, 17 (bottom), 18, 20, 28, 48, 52, 53, 58 (top and bottom), 61, 64 (bottom) 92, 93, 120, 123, 124, 142, 148, 181 Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica 31 American School (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Gorham P. Stevens Papers) 65 (bottom) Archivio di Stato di Roma, 60, 99, 151, 175, 183, 194 (ph. Davide Franceschini – altrospazio) 22, 35, 55, 59, 81, 83, 85, 202, 205, 206 Archivio Storico Capitolino 42, 44, 45 (top and bottom), 47, 51, 98, 101, 178, 179, 197, 200, 201 Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University 68, 75, 80 The British School at Rome Mimmo Capone 157, 159, 161 Roberto Einaudi 153 Davide Franceschini – altrospazio 154-155, 163 Gerardo Gaetani 160 Alex MacLean 152 Mead Art Museum, Amherst College The Pierpont Morgan Library Sheila Nardulli 156 New York Historical Society 64 (top) Pach Bros./Mary Evans Picture Library/Scala, Firenze 19 Giuseppe Primoli, Archivio Primoli 131, 137 Maria Pasolini Ponti 134 Cristina Puglisi 150 Roma Capitale 17 (top) Marco Sfavillante 166 University of Pennsylvania Archives 65 (top)
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