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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jazz percussionist Joyce Kouffman brought Jacquet here again in 1983 and 1984 as an Artist-in-Residence. Jacquet performed with the Harvard Jazz Band in 1987 at the band's 15th reunion concert...
Entitled Pietro Testa (1612-1650): Prints and Drawings, the Sackler exhibit is the most ambitious display of the artist's works during this century. Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins Art History professor Elizabeth Cropper, the pieces in the exhibition demonstrate not only the life and art of Testa, but also the intermingling...
...exhibit presents a retrospective of Testa's works, showing his progression from a talented young draftsman to a gradually dissatisfied older artist who reflected the turmoil of his life in his later works. Mythology, classicism and Christian mythology are the dominant themes of the pieces on display, and the museum has arranged the exhibit chronologically. During his 37 years, Testa was continually plagued by his own unwillingness to produce popular, commerically successful works. Testa relied on the commissions and support of those who chanced across his artistic endeavors and happened to be of like mind. As a result, he spent...
This adamant adherence to his own artistic vision paralleled his egotism, which, even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...
...works such as Summer, Winter and particularly The Triumph of Painting on Parnassus, Testa depicts the virtue and worthiness of both artistry and of the outsider artist, like himself, who will not live the life of worldly pleasures. And his preoccupation with the macabre in earlier works, depicting the death of children and the plague, shows Testa's concern with the encroaching effects of realism as both an artistic style and as a burden to his own unhappy life...