Kennedy, Clarence. Papers and photographs, 1921-1958.

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Kennedy, Clarence. Papers and photographs, 1921-1958.

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Photograph files contain over 6,000 photographic and photomechanical prints related to Italian quattrocento sculpture, with accompanying documentation, including note cards, clippings, correspondence, and several manuscripts. More than 150 sculptors are represented with Desiderio, Donatello, Rossellino, and Verrocchio having the most extensive coverage. Subject files include articles and offprints on printing, typography, and art history; also, some sales and exhibition catalogs, books, and pamphlets. Book, article, and lecture files contain Clarence Kennedy's lecture notes, some correspondence, and 2 unpublished manuscripts (The Social background of Donatello's family; The Silver altar of San Jacopo at Pistoia), along with some manuscripts by other authors. Oversized materials files contain another unpublished manuscript by Clarence Kennedy (Desiderio). The collection also includes two sets of bibliographical note cards compiled by Kennedy on Italian quattrocento sculpture, oversized photographs, and other items.

78 boxes.

Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University.

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Verrocchio, Andrea del, 1435?-1488

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Desiderio, da Settignano, 1428-1464

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Kennedy, Clarence

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Art historian and photographer Clarence Kennedy (1892-1972) received his PhD from Harvard in 1924. He was professor of art at Smith College from 1930-1960. He specialized in Italian Renaissance sculpture and published a series of portfolios, Studies in the history and criticism of sculpture, among other works. 1892. Born, Philadelphia. Pa., September 4, 1892. 1914. ...

Rossellino, Antonio, 1427-1479

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Settigano 1427-1479 Florence. From the description of Bust of the Child St. John the Baptist [sculpture]. [late 15th century] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270757725 ...