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Artists, Series I. 1948-1989, undated

Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Scope and Contents

This series contains research files on artists on whom Ebria focused her research, notably seventeenth-century Bolognese painters, such as those who specialized in quadratura illusionistic painting. There are also several files on artists such as Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Rembrandt, and Picasso, that Feinblatt researched as part of her responsibilities as a prints curator. The bulk of the series is comprised of handwritten notes, letters, annotated typescripts, photocopies and black-and-white photographs.

Arrangement

The arrangement follows Feinblatt's original order of artist files by alphabetical order.
box 1, folder 1

Abate, Nicolò dell', undated

 

Albani, Francesco, undated

box 1, folder 2

Black-and-white photograph

box 23, folder 1

Color negative

box 1, folder 3

Alberti, Cherubino: Sala Clementina, Vatican, undated

box 1, folder 4

Alboresi, Giacomo and Fulgenzio Mondini, 1983

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Uffizi, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, and Bologna Archivio d'Arte.
box 1, folder 5

Aldrovandini, Mauro and Tommaso Aldrovandini, undated

box 1, folder 6

Ambrogi, Domenico, 1971-1982

Scope and Contents

Domenico Ambrogi is also known as Menghino del Brizio.
Includes photographs from Windsor Castle Royal Library, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galleria Cavour and Bologna Archivio d'Arte.
box 1, folder 7

Aspertini, Amico, undated

box 1, folder 8

Baglione, Cesare, 1983

box 1, folder 9

Barbelli, Giovanni Giacomo, 1982

 

Bianchi, Baldassare and Giovanni Giacomo Monti, 1969-1981

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Bandieri, U. Orlandini, Uffizi, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
box 1, folder 10-11

Papers and black-and-white photographs 1969-1981

box 23, folder 2

Color photographs

box 1, folder 12

Bigari, Vittorio Maria, undated

box 1, folder 13

Bistega, Luca Antonio, undated

box 1, folder 14

Boullanger, Jean, undated

box 1, folder 15

Brizio, Francesco and Domenico Ambrogi, 1984-1989

Scope and Contents

Domenico Ambrogi is also known as Menghino del Brizio.
Includes photographs from the Courtauld Institute of Art, Christ Church in Oxford, Budapest Museum of Fine Art, Jacques Fryszman, Uffizi, Fogg Art Museum, Karl Heinrich Paulmann.
box 1, folder 16

Brueghel, Pieter, undated

box 1, folder 17

Bruni, Domenico, 1971-1986

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storici di Venezia.
box 1, folder 18

Burrini, Giovanni Antonio, undated

box 2, folder 1

Caccioli, Giovanni Battista, 1966-1986

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Uffizi and Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
 

Canuti, Domenico Maria, 1951-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Bildarchiv der der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Milwaukee Art Museum, Yvonne Tan Bunzl, Albertina, Landesbildstelle Rheinland, Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, Christie's, Gasparini, Jacques Fryszman, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut Mainz, Louvre, John R. Freeman & Co., Ashmolean Museum, Tom Scott, Heim Gallery, British Museum, Uffizi, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Sydney W. Newberry, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum, Musée lyonnais des arts décoratifs, Lyman Allyn Museum, Institut néerlandais, National Galleries of Scotland, DIA, Prado, North Carolina Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, Fedeli, Armand Hammer Foundation.
box 2, folder 2-3

General

 

Copies or questionable

box 2, folder 4-5

Papers and black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 3

Black-and-white negatives

box 2, folder 6-7

Disegni

box 2, folder 8

Palazzo Altieri, Rome

box 2, folder 9

Palazzo Fibbia, Bologna

box 2, folder 10

Odyssey drawing

box 3, folder 1

Santi Domenico e Sisto, Rome

box 3, folder 2

Meleager

box 3, folder 3

Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna

box 3, folder 4

Prophet drawings

box 3, folder 5

S. Michele in Bosco, Bologna

box 3, folder 6

Transit of St. Benedict, Accademia, Bologna

 

Various

box 3, folder 7

Black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 3

Black-and-white negatives

box 3, folder 8

Carracci, Annibale, 1951-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes: letter from Seymour Howard with his article on Bonzi in Gazette des beaux-arts, 1988, photographs from John R. Freeman & Co., Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Lucien Goldschmidt, British Museum, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Albertina, Pierpont Morgan Library, Art Institute of Chicago, Prado.
box 3, folder 9

Carracci family, undated

Scope and Contents

Documents works by Annibale, Agostino and Lodovico Carracci, with an emphasis on the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, and the Palazzo Magnani-Salem, Bologna. For more information on Lodovico Carracci, see also documents in the Alessandro Tiarini file regarding the attribution of work at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
box 3, folder 1

Chiarini, Marc'Antonio, 1971

 

Colonna, Angelo Michele, 1951-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes three copies of Art Quarterly reprints, Estratto da Arte antica e moderna 1965, Angelo Michele Colonna y la decoracion de San Antonio de los Portugueses, a clipping from Burlington Magazine, and a clipping from an unknown publication.
Also includes photographs from Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Cooper Union Museum, Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main, Uffizi, Prado, Richard P. Wunder, Christie's, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
box 4, folder 1-2

Drawings

box 4, folder 3

General

box 4, folder 4-5

Documents

box 5, folder 1

Manuscripts transcription of oeuvre list

box 5, folder 2

Chapel of the Rosary, S. Domenico, Bologna

box 5, folder 3

S. Alessandro, Parma

box 5, folder 4

Palazzo Comunale, Bologna

box 5, folder 5

Palazzo Pitti, Florence

box 5, folder 6

Palazzo Spada, Rome

box 5, folder 7

S. Bartolomeo, Bologna

box 5, folder 8

Palazzo Locatelli, Bologna

box 5, folder 9

Cappella Sampieri, San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna)

box 5, folder 10

Santa Croce, Palazzo Comunale

box 5, folder 11

S. Michele in Bosco, Bologna

box 5, folder 12

Orpheus and Eurydice, form. Palazzo Magnani

box 5, folder 13

Church of the Merced, Madrid

box 5, folder 14

Destroyed works

box 5, folder 15

Prints after

box 5, folder 16

Pupils of

box 5, folder 17-18

Colonna-Alboresi, undated

box 5, folder 17

General

box 5, folder 18

Villa Albergati-Theodoli, Zola Predosa

 

Colonna-Mitelli, 1964-1983

Scope and Contents

Includes reprint from Master Drawings.
box 6, folder 1

Notes

box 23, folder 4

Black-and-white negatives

box 6, folder 2

Cortona, Pietro da, 1956-1987

box 6, folder 3

Cospi, Ferdinando, undated

 

Curti, Girolamo, 1962-1984

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Christ Church Oxford, Metropolitan Museum, Comune di Genova.
box 6, folder 4-5

General

box 6, folder 6-7

Documents

Scope and Contents

Includes letter to Conte Ginanni.
box 6, folder 8-9

Notes

box 7, folder 1

Copies or unrelated

box 7, folder 2

Technique

box 7, folder 3

Grimaldi Chapel, S. Domenico, Bologna

box 7, folder 4

S. Francesco, Bologna

box 7, folder 5

S. Martino, Bologna

 

Palazzo Ludovisi, Rome

box 7, folder 6

Papers and black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 5

Color transparency

box 7, folder 7

Palazzo Paleotti, Bologna

box 7, folder 8

Dyck, Anthony van, 1948

Scope and Contents

Includes three letters from J.H. Preston.
box 7, folder 9

Fontana, Prospero, undated

box 7, folder 10

Franceschini, Marc Antonio, undated

box 7, folder 11

Gaulli, Giovanni Battista, undated

box 7, folder 12

Giovanni da San Giovanni, undated

 

Haffner, Enrico, 1958-1970

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Università di Genova and research on Anton Maria Haffner related to article "A Letter by Enrico Haffner," Burlington Magazine, 1970.
box 7, folder 13

General papers and black-and-white photographs

Scope and Contents

Includes clippings from Burlington Magazine.
box 23, folder 6

Color photographs

box 7, folder 14

Lanfranco, Giovanni, undated

box 7, folder 15

Laureti, Tommaso, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
box 7, folder 16

Leonardo da Vinci, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from the Johnson Art Collection, research and photographs related to Leonardo's Leda.
box 7, folder 17

Lombardi, Alfonso, undated

box 3, folder 18

Mantuano, Dionisio, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Prado.
 

Maratta, Carlo, 1978-1980

Scope and Contents

Includes letter from the Warburg Institute.
box 7, folder 19

General papers and black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 7

Black-and-white negatives

box 7, folder 20

Marchesi, Giuseppe, undated

Scope and Contents

Artist is also known as Sansone. Photograph from the North Carolina Museum of Art.
box 7, folder 21

Massari, Lucio, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from the Gabinetto fotografico nazionale di Roma and the Crocker Art Museum.
 

Mitelli, Agostino, 1958-1968

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, Richard P. Wunder, Cooper Union Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Taylor & Dull Inc., Nationalmuseum Stockholm, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Pinacoteca di Brera.
See also Colonna and Mitelli.
box 8, folder 1-5

General papers and black-and-white photographs

box 9, folder 1-3

Drawings

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of prints for Mitelli's Freggi dell'architettura.
box 9, folder 4

MS B. 3375

box 23, folder 8

Black-and-white negatives

Scope and Contents

Includes annotated negative sleeves.
box 9, folder 5

Munch, Edvard, undated

box 9, folder 6

Muratori, Domenico Maria, 1984-1986

Scope and Contents

Includes: letter from Roseline Bacou, correspondence from Dwight Miller, photographs from Photographic archives of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Landesbildstelle Rheinland, Soprintendenza ai beni ambientali architettonici, artistici e storici per le Provincie di Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, and Massa Carrara.
 

Niceron, Jean-François, 1977-1980

box 9, folder 7

Papers

box 23, folder 9

Black-and-white negatives

box 9, folder 8

Pasinelli, Lorenzo, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Bildarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek and Nationalmuseum Stockholm.
box 9, folder 9

Picasso, Pablo, 1966, undated

box 9, folder 10

Pizzoli, Gioacchino, undated

Scope and Contents

Assistant to Colonna.
box 10, folder 1-3

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1961

box 10, folder 4

Rizi, Francisco, 1975

 

Rolli, Giuseppe Maria, 1984-1985

Scope and Contents

Includes: reprint of "Some drawings by ..." in Master Drawings, letter from Henry Aver, photographs from British Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art, Dayton Art Institute, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Soprintendenza alle Gallerie Bologna, Fitzwilliam Museum, Albertina, Christ Church Oxford, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Christie's, Louvre, Herbert P. Voce, Comune di Genova, National Galleries of Scotland, Collection Janos Scholz, Uffizi, Stearn & Sons, Cooper Union Museum.
box 10, folder 5-6

Papers and black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 10

Black-and-white negative

Scope and Contents

Includes one item: one annotated negative envelope.
box 10, folder 7

Rosa, Salvator, 1965-1968

Scope and Contents

Contains clippings from Art Bulletin.
box 10, folder 8

Rosso Fiorentino undated

box 11, folder 1

Sabatini, Lorenzo, 1973

Scope and Contents

Contains one copy of Alister Mathews Drawings & Watercolours catalog.
box 11, folder 2

Sandrino, Tommaso, 1981-1982

box 11, folder 3-4

Santi, Domenico, 1973-1988

Scope and Contents

Includes: letters from Mary L. Myers and correspondence with Jennifer Montagu.
box 11, folder 5

Seghizzi, Andrea, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Università di Genova, Foto Gasparini.
box 11, folder 6

Spada, Leonello, 1972

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Cleveland Museum of Art.
box 11, folder 7

Tassi, Agostino, 1952

Scope and Contents

Includes: letter from Cipriana Scelba, photograph from Archivio Fotografico del Lazio.
box 11, folder 8

Tesi, Mauro Antonio, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Schaeffer Galleries.
box 11, folder 9

Tiarini, Alessandro, undated

 

Tibaldi, Pellegrino, 1975

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Gabinetto fotografico degli Uffizi, Alinari, Jacques Fryszman.
box 11, folder 10

General papers black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 11

Black-and-white negatives

Scope and Contents

Includes annotated negative envelope.
box 11, folder 11

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1971-1980

Scope and Contents

Includes: letter from Thérèse Burollet, photographs from Museum of Art University of Michigan Ann Arbor, R.E. Lewis, Alinari.
box 12, folder 1

Valesio, Giovanni Luigi, 1982

Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Börje Magnusson.
box 12, folder 2

Veralli, Filippo, undated

Scope and Contents

Contains a photograph from Studio Serge Martin.
box 12, folder 3

Vigarini, Gaspare, undated

 

Vignola, Jacopo da, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes: clipping from unknown publication, photograph from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
box 12, folder 4

General papers and black-and-white photograph

box 23, folder 12

Black-and-white negatives

Scope and Contents

Includes annotated envelope.
 

Zanutti, Eustachio,

box 12, folder 5

General papers and black-and-white photographs

box 23, folder 13

Black-and-white negatives

box 12, folder 6

Zuccaro, Federico, undated

box 12, folder 7

Various artists, 1961-1982

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from Accademia Americana, Archivio fotografico Gallerie dei Musei Vaticani, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen.
 

Sites, Series II. 1952-1985, undated

Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Scope and Contents

This series focuses on relevant sites where Bolognese quadraturisti executed ceiling paintings, primarily in northern Italy but also in locations outside of Italy such as France and Spain. Often more than one specialist in the field of quadratura contributed to a particular site. The bulk of this series is comprised of handwritten notes, annotated typescripts, photocopies and black-and-white photographs.

Arrangement

The arrangement of this series follows Feinblatt's original order of listing sites by alphabetical order.
box 13, folder 1

Bagnarola di Budrio: Villa Malvezzi-Campeggi, 1968

box 13, folder 2-5

Bologna, 1978, undated

box 13, folder 2

Oratorio di San Colombano, undated

Scope and Contents

Feinblatt note: "Gloriosa Gara" c. 1622.
box 13, folder 3

Palazzo Comunale, Sala Urbana, undated

Scope and Contents

Focuses on the work of Curti and Colonna.
box 13, folder 4

S. Rocco, undated

box 13, folder 5

S. Maria dei Servi, 1978

box 13, folder 6

Brescia: Palazzo Caifami, undated

box 13, folder 7

Caprarola (Viterbo), undated

box 13, folder 8

Ferrara, undated

box 13, folder 9

Florence: Palazzo Orti Oricellari, undated

box 13, folder 10-12

Genoa, 1955-1982

Scope and Contents

Includes: letters from Attilio Podestà, photographs from Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Foto Gasparini, Soprintendenza alle gallerie della Liguria Genova, Comune di Genova.
box 13, folder 11-12

General papers and black-and-white photographs

box 13, folder 13

Palazzo Balbi

box 13, folder 13

Lucca, 1980

Scope and Contents

Focuses on the work of Colonna.
 

Madrid, 1952-1985, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes notes and papers on the Palacio del Buen Retiro and the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales.
box 14, folder 1-3

General papers and black-and-white photographs

box 14, folder 4

Buen Retiro

box 23, folder 14

Color slide

box 14, folder 5

Mezzomonte (Florence): Villa Corsini, 1966

Scope and Contents

Focuses on the work of Colonna and Albani.
box 14, folder 6

Milan: Palazzo Crivelli, undated

box 14, folder 7-8

Modena, 1954-1979, undated

box 14, folder 7

General, undated

box 14, folder 8

S. Biagio, 1954

box 14, folder 9

Paris, 1969

Scope and Contents

This research file focuses on Colonna's work and includes documentation on the decoration of the Hôtel de Lionne at Versailles and of the Château at Sceaux.
box 14, folder 10

Parma, undated

Scope and Contents

Focuses on Colonna's work at S. Giovanni Evangelista.
box 14, folder 11

Ponsacco (Pisa): Villa di Camugliano, 1952

box 15, folder 1

Ravenna, undated

Scope and Contents

Focuses on the work of Curti.
box 15, folder 2

Sassuolo (Modena): Palazzo Ducale, 1971-1979

Scope and Contents

No Subnote Content
box 15, folder 3

Trebbo, 1962-1966

Scope and Contents

Focuses on the work of Curti.
box 15, folder 4

Venice, undated

box 15, folder 75

Miscellaneous, undated

 

Topics, Series III. 1943-1989, undated

Physical Description: 3.3 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Scope and Contents

The series comprises research files on topics ranging from Jesuit church painting, tarsia to theater, which Feinblatt assembled thematically in her research. Large research files are comprised of surrogates for archival documents and reproduction of drawings that were used in order to settle artist attributions. This series includes early drafts and annotated drafts for components of Feinblatt's book, Seventeenth-century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators. Feinblatt's personal writings including plays, fiction, and academic papers are also found in this series. The bulk of the series is comprised of handwritten notes, annotated typescripts, letters and black-and-white photographs and negatives.

Arrangement

Topics have been arranged into four categories: Art topics, Archival documents, Publications/Writings, and Miscellaneous. Labels or names that Feinblatt gave to topics have been retained, unless otherwise noted.
 

Art topics, 1943-1989

 

Drawing, 1968-1987

box 16, folder 1-4

Attribution questions ("La questione"), 1974-1989

Scope and Contents

This folder, previously titled by Feinblatt as "La questione," is comprised of notes and black-and-white photographs. It served as a research file for attribution questions regarding drawings by several artists, notably Curti, Canuti and Colonna.
box 16, folder 5-6

Copies, derivations, modifications, variations, 1976

Scope and Contents

The folder, primarily comprised of black-and-white photographs and manuscript notes, includes discussions on Colonna-Mitelli and Canuti.
box 17, folder 1-4

Disegni, 1965-1987

box 17, folder 1-2

General, 1976-1987

box 17, folder 3-4

Bibliography, 1965-1985

 

Drawing, Bolognese, 1976, undated

box 17, folder 5

Notes

box 17, folder 6

18th century

box 23, folder 15

Color slides and color photograph

box 17, folder 7

Drawing, German, undated

box 17, folder 8

Intarsia/tarsia, undated

box 18, folder 1

Jesuit church painting, 1947, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes reprint from Art Quarterly.
box 18, folder 2

Oratorios, undated

box 18, folder 3

Patrons, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes materials regarding artist Andrea Pozzo.
box 18, folder 4-9

Prints, 1943-1984, undated

box 18, folder 4

History, 1943-1968

box 18, folder 5-6

Techniques, 1965-1966

Scope and Contents

Includes copy of How Books Are Made. See also the folder titled Rembrandt van Rijn, for further discussion on prints techniques.
box 18, folder 7

Prints as sources, undated

box 18, folder 8

German, prints, undated

box 18, folder 9

Graphic Arts Council, 1972-1984

Scope and Contents

Folder previously titled by Feinblatt as "Lectures." The Graphic Arts Council was formed by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in order to support the activities and acquisitions of the department.
box 19, folder 1-5

Quadratura, 1951-1969

box 19, folder 6-7

Schools, 1986, undated

box 19, folder 6

French, 1986

box 19, folder 7

Mexican, undated

box 20, folder 1

Scenography, undated

box 20, folder 2

Spiral columns, undated

 

Theater, 1952-1982

box 20, folder 3-4

General papers

box 23, folder 16

Black-and-white negative

box 20, folder 5

Women artists, 1953

Scope and Contents

Contains Feinblatt's paper on Elisabetta Sirani, Angelica Kauffmann and Maria Bashkirtseff, titled "Three Glamor Girls of Art."
box 20, folder 6

Wunder Collection, undated

box 20, folder 7-11

Archival documents, 1982, undated

box 20, folder 7

Handwriting and manuscripts, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs and photocopies of manuscripts probably used to analyze handwriting for attributions.
box 20, folder 8

Other archival documents, 1982

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies of Amoni archives and other archival documents.
box 24, folder 2

Negative rolls reproducing archival document

Scope and Contents

Item was not in labeled folder.
box 20, folder 9-11

Biographers, undated

box 20, folder 9

Baldinucci, Filippo

box 20, folder 10

Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Acisclo Antonio

box 20, folder 11

Oretti, Marcello

 

Publication projects/Writings, 1944-1989

box 21, folder 1-5

Seventeenth-century Bolognese Ceiling Decorators, 1987, undated

box 21, folder 1

Introduction, undated

Scope and Contents

Ultimately this chapter was published as the afterview.
box 21, folder 2

Forerunners of Bolognese quadratura, undated

Scope and Contents

Includes work that ultimately comprised chapter two of Ebria's book.
box 21, folder 3

Illustrations, undated

Scope and Contents

Lists of illustrations for the text.
box 21, folder 4

Bibliography, 1987

box 21, folder 5

Footnotes, undated

box 21, folder 6

Catalog of Colonna-Mitelli drawings, undated

box 21, folder 7

Catalogues raisonnés, undated

box 21, folder 8

Dictionary of art, 1986-1989

box 22, folder 1

Papers, 1944-1947

Scope and Contents

Includes academic papers possibly for the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, or, UCLA where Feinblatt attended.
box 22, folder 2

Italian notes, 1950-1951

Scope and Contents

Includes some fiction written by Feinblatt probably during the time she spent in Rome. One work includes a rejection letter from the New Yorker.
box 22, folder 3

Plays, undated

 

Miscellaneous, undated

box 22, folder 4

New Yorker clippings

box 22, folder 5

Various papers

box 24, folder 1

Black-and-white negatives and slides

Scope and Contents

Includes annotated negative envelopes.