La presentazione si è tenuta a Ferrara l'8 maggio 2017. Tre casi, Benjamin West a Roma, l'Expo di Philadelphia del 1876 e la fondazione dell'American Academy in Rome, portano a riflettere sul cambiamento dei rapporti fra Roma e gli USA. Presentation held at Ferrara, Pinacoteca Nazionale, on May 8th, 2017. Three cases - Benjamin West in Rome, Philadelphia 1876's Centennial Exhibition, the foundation of the American Academy in Rome - drive to the main topic, the changing relationship betw. USA and Rome.

1. Esportare opere, plasmare uno stile.
Le origini del Made in Italy
Paolo Coen
Università degli Studi di Teramo
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3. Schema del discorso di oggi
1. Roma e Benjamin West
2. L’expo del 1876 a Philadelphia e Alessandro
Castellani
3. L’American Academy in Rome
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4. 1 - Roma e Benjamin West

9. Benjamin West was a phenomenon, an
American from a Country not yet known
for art who became one of the foremost
painters of his time, setting an historical
style for England and America through
his own works and that of his students.
John Dillenberger, 1977

10. 2. L’expo del 1876 a Philadelphia

28. 3. L’American Academy in Rome

35. Do you realize that this [i.e. 1893’s
Columbian Exhibition in Chicago] is
the greatest meeting of artists since
the fifteenth century?
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

36. Alla base dell’American Academy in
Rome (1895) vi furono:
a) La proiezione verso il Rinascimento
italiano e in particolare romano
b) L’expo di Chicago nel 1893 e la prova
di maturità fornita dagli USA nell’arte

44. If we could ever build our own building and show these
Dagos what architecture is (...) what an object lesson it
would be to Italy and to other nations! Show these Johnnies
how much better we have taken to heart the lessons of the
past than they have, show them what we can do and how we
can be modern and not forget the masters of the past. Shom
them that all the improvements of Science need not destroy
beauty of line, proportion and mass; show them it isn’t
necessary for an architect to have dirty lines or an artist dirty
fingernails. Show them in fact that we are it.
David Millet a Charles F. McKim, 12 luglio 1906

46. Cosa insegnano questi tre casi?
1 – Benjamin West, 1760-1763
2 – Expo di Philadelphia, 1876
3 – American Academy in Rome, 1895

47. Roma 1878-1908: La forza del destino.
Esportare opere, plasmare uno stile
1. Produrre e riprodurre
2. Il Vittoriano
3. Il rinnovamento del mercato
4. Roma e gli USA, gli USA e Roma
5. Esportare opere, plasmare uno stile