A lecture by Lynn Catterson
For the last ten years Lynn Catterson, Columbia University, has been researching the untouched Bardini archives, where she has discovered many intriguing stories about the late nineteenth century market for “renaissance” art. We are delighted to welcome her back for the next startling instalment.
Albert E. Harnisch (1843 - 1918), the sculptor and painter born and trained in Philadelphia, relocated to Rome in 1869. There he enjoyed success, including commissions from America for public monuments. His legacy includes many high quality signed and dated bronze and marble figurative sculptures which were sent abroad. But for the last 31 years of his life, following the poor reception of one of his monuments in 1887, only one signed work can be located. At that time, Harnisch moved to Florence, where he worked for the Florentine dealer, Stefano Bardini (1836-1922) for the rest of his life as one of the managers of the business. At the same time, it turns out that Harnisch was also deftly producing “Italian Renaissance” works—new compositions, as distinct from copies—which were then sold by Bardini.
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This lecture is sponsored by Alice Vogler