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The Newsletter of the ITALIAN ART SOCIETY The Newsletter of the ITALIAN ART SOCIETY XX, 1 Winter 2008 An Affiliated Society of the College Art Association and the Renaissance Society of America In memoriam Andrew Ladis President’s Message from Shelley Zuraw: January 20, 2007 want to add both an agenda for the 2008 CAA business Happy New Year to all. The end of 2007 was a hectic meeting and a proposed revision to the by-laws. Both few months, but 2008 is shaping up to be an exciting steps are essential to our future health and growth. year. I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the Although currently only members at the meeting can annual IAS business meeting on Friday, February 22 at vote, I welcome any comments from the membership. 7:30 am in Austin Ballroom 1. Due to the prohibitive They will be shared at the meeting and, I hope, will expense, we are going to provide coffee and tea, but not allow us to reach a wider membership than one limited breakfast food, so bring your own power bars! by the increasing expense of conference travel. As you will see when you take a look at the schedule of Finally, on a personal note, my friend and colleague conference sessions for 2008, we have an amazing slate Andrew Ladis passed away on December 2, 2007. He of conference papers. Every year I think that the sessions th was a deeply committed member of the IAS and I know at CAA, RSA, 16 Century Studies, and Kalamazoo are the Society will miss him almost as much as I do. so extraordinary that we will never be able to improve upon them. And every year we have managed to pull off Shelley Zuraw another, even more exciting series. We certainly owe this [email protected] to Kirstin Noreen and her Program Committee. Sadly, Kirstin, along with Griffith Mann, will be stepping down from that committee. We owe them a debt of gratitude. Dorothy Glass who has done an exemplary job as chair IAS Business Matters: of the Nominating Committee, along with Phil Earen- fight, a member of that committee, will be ending their Tentative Agenda: IAS Business Meeting years of service in February. The chair of the Travel Friday, February 22, 7:30–9:00 AM Grant Committee, Jacki Musacchio and Catherine Pug- Austin Ballroom 1, 2nd Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel lisi, a member of that committee, will also be coming to the end of their terms of appointment in February. 1. Welcome (SEZ) Finally, Joyce Kubiski is leaving her position as Trea- 2. Appreciation for departing committee chairs and surer and Membership Coordinator; for that and for all of members (SEZ) the great work she did on the website, we are in her debt. 3. Travel Grant Committee announcement (Travel I know I speak for us all when I say that we are indivi- Grant Committee) dually and collectively grateful for the yeoman’s work 4. Presentation of CAA Graduate Student Travel Grant the chairs and committee members have done for the (Travel Grant Committee) to Alexandra Hoare, Ph.D IAS. But even as I type this, I am sure that the Nom- candidate from the University of Toronto, for her inating Committee has put together another first-rate paper “Fortitude, Fortune and Fame: The Cele- slate of candidates for each of these committees. The bration and Commemoration of Male Friendship in new slate will be presented at the CAA business meet- Two Works by Salvator Rosa” which will be ing. delivered in the session “Masculinity in Early Modern Art” (see below, p. 7) In the fall newsletter Jeri Wood and I included minutes 5. Slate for new committees (Nominating Committee) from the last Kalamazoo meeting. With this newsletter I Travel Grant Committee (2) IAS Newsletter, Winter 2008, p. 2 Program Committee (2) College Art Association and of the International Con- Nominating Committee (2) gress, are announced in the Italian Art Society News- Treasurer/Membership Coordinator letter sent to all members three times annually, and are 6. Vote for new committee members posted on the Italian Art Society website: http://www. 7. Consideration of by-laws and proposed changes to italianartsociety.org. All official changes to the by-laws by-laws of the Italian Art Society will be made at the meeting at 8. Consideration, nomination and election of proposed the College Art Association. website director 9. Presentation by the Program Committee (Kirstin ARTICLE V. OFFICERS Noreen) 10. Other business Section A. Number, Designation The officers of the Italian Art Society are a President, a Italian Art Society By-Laws Vice-President, [a Secretary/Treasurer], a Treasurer/ February 17, 2003 Membership Coordinator, Newsletter Editor, and Web- (Please review and come to the IAS business meeting at site Director. CAA prepared to discuss the proposed changes and deletions; italics = additions/changes, [brackets] = pot- Section B. Election and Term of Office ential deletions) The officers of the Society are nominated and elected by the members attending the annual meeting at the CAA. ARTICLE I: NAME The President and Vice-President are elected for two- year terms. The Vice-President shall automatically suc- The Organization is known as: The Italian Art Society. ceed to the position of President; the [Secretary/ Trea- surer] Treasurer/Membership Coordinator, the News- ARTICLE II. PURPOSES letter and Website directors are elected for a two-year term with the potential for renewal. The principal purpose of the Society is to promote the study of Italian art, especially through the organization of Section C. President sessions of scholarly presentations on art historical and The President is the chief executive officer of the historical issues. [The exchange of ideas and information Society. The President presides at the annual meeting, on Italian art is also promoted by the distribution of [serves as liaison with the Medieval Institute at Western bibliographies of publications and research interests of Michigan University for the organization and scheduling the members of the Society.] of the Society’s sessions] and of the annual meeting at the International Congress, and [coordinates the selec- ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP tions of the organizers of the individual sessions]. The President is also responsible for expanding the mission Membership is open to any affiliated or independent of the Society. scholar interested in Italian art, including (but not limited to) specialists in the fields of: art history (includes Section D. Vice-President theory, criticism, conservation), history, musicology, The Vice-President shall perform the duties of the literature, philosophy. There are dues to join the Society, President in his/her absence, and shall perform those to participate in a sponsored session, to receive copies of tasks assigned by the President [and the Secretary]. the newsletter, [and to be included in and to receive the Bibliography listing publications and research interests Section E. [Secretary/Treasurer] Treasurer/ of the participating members]. Membership Coordinator The [Secretary/Treasurer] Treasurer/Membership Coor- ARTICLE IV. MEETINGS dinator is responsible [for publishing and distributing the Newsletter and the Bibliography], maintaining and up- Regular meetings of the Society are held annually in dating the membership list, [answering correspondence], February at the College Art Association meeting and in and managing the finances of the Society. May at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The principal aims of these meet- Section F. Newsletter Director ings are to: 1) determine the topics of sessions to be The Newsletter Director is responsible for publishing offered at the CAA meetings, the Renaissance Society and distributing the newsletter. annual meeting, the 16th Century Studies Conference, and the International Medieval Studies Congress; 2) elect Section G. Website Director officers of the Society; 3) elect members to the Program, The Website Director is responsible for maintaining and Nominating, and Travel Grant Committees. Notices of expanding the Society’s website. these meetings are published in the programs of the IAS Newsletter, Winter 2008, p. 3 ARTICLE VI. STANDING COMMITTEES on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis—will appear in 2008. Andrew Ladis is survived by William Underwood There are three standing committees: the Nominating Eiland, his partner of thirty-seven years, currently the Committee, the Program Committee, and the Travel director of the Georgia Museum of Art; by his sister, Grant Committee. Each committee has five members Mrs. Maria White Davis; and by the countless friends, (one being Chair); each member is nominated by the colleagues and students whose lives he enriched. Mem- Nominating Committee and elected at the annual orial gifts may be made to the UGA Foundation (394 S. business meeting at CAA to serve for three years. The Milledge Ave., Athens GA 30602) for the benefit of the position of chair is normally a two-year appointment; at Andrew Ladis European Travel Scholarship at the Lamar the end of the chair’s term, the president of the Italian Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Art Society, after consultation with the outgoing chair, asks a current member of the standing committee to become the new chair. Exhibition Review ARTICLE VII. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Renaissance Siena: Art for a City The officers listed above along with the chairs of the Timothy B. Smith three standing committees–Nominating, Travel Grant, and Program–shall function as the executive committee. The art of Siena was recently featured at the National They (or their designated representatives) will meet Gallery in London (the first such exhibit there since annually at Kalamazoo in order to plan, coordinate, and 1904), but it was not represented by the familiar artists facilitate the increasingly complex activities of the and panel paintings from the Trecento “Golden Age” that Italian Art Society.
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