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Curriculum
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| Name: |
Virginia
Anne Bonito |
| Address: |
1124
Waring Avenue Bronx, New York 10469
Phone/Fax (718) 653-1577 |
| Email: |
vbonito@optonline.net
vbonito@mnemosynefoundation.com
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| Education: |
Ph.D.,
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1983.
M.A., History of Art, Queens College of the City University of New
York, 1972.
B.A., History, Fordham University, Thomas More College, 1969. |
| Areas
of Specialization: |
Italian Renaissance
art, 1300-1600; further concentration in Western art before 1600,
especially Classical and Medieval art, including aspects of architecture,
sculpture and painting;
Conservation philosophies and methodologies, techniques of restoration
of paintings, sculpture and architecture;
Art theory, and American Post War figural art and realism. |
| Awards
and Honors: |
Yale
University Morse Faculty Fellowship for the academic year 1986-1987.
Individual and matching grants from the J. Paul Getty Trust, the
Lehman Foundation and a number of other organizations and private
donors for the Pompeii Menander Project (administered by ICCROM,
Rome), 1985-1987.
A. Whitney Griswold Fellowship, Summer 1984.
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, 1980-1981.
Krautheimer Fellowship for Post-Classical Humanist Studies, American
Academy in Rome, 1980-1981.
Martin and Edith Weinberger Fund Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University, 1980.
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow of the American Academy in Rome,
1979-1980.
Chester Dale Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 1978-1979.
Theodore Rousseau Fellowship, 1977-1978.
Institute of Fine Arts Fellowship, 1976-1977.
Institute of Fine Arts Summer Study Travel Grant, 1974 and 1975.
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Art, Queens College, 1970-1972.
Regents College Scholarship, 1965-1969. |
| Professional
Societies: |
College Art
Association of America; Renaissance Society of America; Society
of Fellows, American Academy in Rome. |
| Employment: |
Founder and
Chairperson, The The Mnemosyne Foundation, a not for profit corporation
whose charter is the edification of the public at large by means
of electronic and physical media bringing information on cultural
topics and, especially, inspired human activity, established April
2001. www.mnemosynefoundation.com
Head, Virginia Anne Bonito Fine Arts, Inc, author, consulting services
and special projects in art history and conservation, February 1991
- present.
Advisor and assistant curator to Richard D. Segal (the Segal Family
Art Portfolio & The Seavest Collection of Contemporary American
Realism), 1990 - present.
Director, Restoration of the Renaissance altar of St. Anne in the
Church of S. Agostino, Rome, dedicated on July 26, 1512; principal
components - the marble figural group, St. Anne, Virgin and Child
by Andrea Sansovino and the fresco of the Prophet Isaiah,
Raphael. Restoration: phase I, Fall 1979-January 1981; phase II,
July 1995 - November 1998.
Partner, Vazquez and Bonito, Inc., Old Master Works of Art, Northport,
NY and Stamford CT, January 1989 - January 1991.
Lecturer, "Winter Courses Program 1989," Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Winter/Spring 1989.
Lecturer, Gallery Talks, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 1988.
Lecturer, New School for Social Research, Fall 1988.
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Art (and Renaissance
Studies Program), Yale University, Fall 1983 - Spring 1988.
Lecturer, Department of the History of Art (and Renaissance Studies
Program), Yale University, Fall 1981 - Spring 1983.
Adjunct lecturer, Queens College of the City University of New York,
Summer 1974 - Summer 1978; Spring l981.
Adjunct lecturer, Queensborough Community College of the City University
of New York, Fall 1973 - Spring 1977.
Research assistant for Professor Kathleen Weil-Garris, Institute
of Fine Arts, NYU, survey book on 16th century Italian sculpture,
1974 -1976.
Research assistant for Professor Rose Carol Washton Long, Queens
College, CUNY, manuscript phase of Vasily Kandinsky and the Origins
of Abstraction, Oxford, 1980. |
| Consulting: |
Acquisition
/ advisory and curatorial services in Old Master Paintings and Works
of Art and in Post War American Figural Art and Realism for collectors
and investors in the private and corporate sectors; lecturer and
guest curator for Galleries, Museums and Collectors; free lance
scholar; author of scholarly articles and books. |
| Teaching
Experience: |
Graduate and
undergraduate level lectures and seminars surveying Italian Renaissance
art and art theory, monographic examination of artists, and exploration
of single themes; general surveys of art (Ancient through Gothic,
Renaissance through Modern, Prehistoric through Modern, Interdisciplinary
surveys); surveys of Northern and Southern Renaissance art; 19th
century European art; art history methodology.
Developed a seminar, "Introduction to Philosophies and Methodologies
of Conservation," to complement traditional courses in art history
and materials & techniques, in order to provide information about
the survival of materials and media over time. |
| Committees: |
Yale College
Undergraduate Course of Study Committee, Fall 1987 - Spring 1988.
Departmental Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committees, Fall
1983 - Spring 1984.
Yale Junior Year Abroad Committee, Fall 1984 - Spring 1985. |
| Publications: |
"High Fidelity,"
This Is America, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2001, published in conjuction
with the exhibition, "This Is America," 9/01/01 - 11/25/01, p. 158
ff.
Don Eddy: The Resonance of Realism in the Art of Post War America,
an art history internet monograph publication, www. artregisterpress.com/DonEddy.html
January 2000.
Contributor, web page design, color imaging and essays (Seavest
Collection, Andre Puigmal and Janet Slom web pages), www.artregister.com
and artistregister.com; 1999 - 2000.
Get Real: Contemporary American Realism from the Seavest Collection,
Duke University Museum of Art, Spring,1988.
Contributor of biographies of Italian Renaissance artists to the
MacMillan Dictionary of Art, revised edition, 1997 - 98.
Articles ("Fra Angelico," "Andrea del Sarto," "Sculpture"), Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance, Market House Books Limited, l987.
"A Coordinated Methodology for the Treatment and Study of the Peristyle
Garden Wall of the House of Menander, Pompeii: An Interim Report,"
Case Studies in the Conservation of Stone and Wall Paintings,
Preprints of the contributions to the International Institute for
Conservation Bologna Congress, 21-26 September 1986, pp. 38-43,
principal author.
"Some Technical Observations on Raphael's Isaiah and the
Academia San Luca Putto," Source: Notes in the History
of Art, Vol. III, no. 4, Summer 1984, pp. 68-80, principal author.
Book review, J.B. de C.M. Saunders and C.D. O'Malley, "Leonardo
on the Human Body," Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. LX,
September 1985, pp 329-330.
"The Saint Anne altar in Sant'Agostino, Rome; restoration and interpretation,"
Burlington Magazine, May 1982, pp. 268-275.
"The Saint Anne altar in Sant'Agostino, Rome; a new discovery,"
Burlington Magazine, December 1980, pp. 805-811. |
| Dissertation: |
"The Altar
of Johann Goritz in Sant'Agostino, Rome; an ensemble of sculpture,
painting and poetry of the Roman High Renaissance restored," Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University, Spring 1983; published by Garland
Publishing, NY & London, Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine
Arts series; and by UMI Dissertations in the Fine Arts, 1984.
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| Lectures: |
"The Saint
Anne altar in Sant'Agostino, Rome: A Restoration Saga," Duke University
Museum of Art, March 27, 1997.
"Five Contemporary American Realists: Carolyn Brady, Richard Estes,
John Baeder, Don Eddy, Gregory Gillespie," Duke University Museum
of Art, opening lecture, Get Real exhibition , April 4, 1997.
"Between Mind and Matter: The Role of Artistic Creative Imagination,"
November 29, 1991, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York City; January
6, 1991, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; February
21,1991, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
"Una Vera Meraviglia di Roma: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
Ceiling Restored," delivered at the 707th meeting of the Rembrandt
Club, Brooklyn, NY, February 5, 1990.
"The Romantic Movement in American Art" and "Degas," using works
of art from the permanent and special exhibitions at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for The Edward and Fredda Sexton Academy, Manhattan
School of Music, Fall, 1989.
"Andrea Sansovino's Popolo Tombs," Symposium on Late Quattrocento
Sculpture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 4-7, 1988.
"The Locus Amoenus, Myth or Reality: Efforts to Preserve
the Peristyle Garden of the House of Menander in Pompeii," delivered
to the Saint Louis Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America
and the Department of Art and Archaeology, Washington University,
January 24, 1988.
"Roman Mortars and Decorative Surfaces under Study in the Pompeii
Menander Project," delivered to Members of the International Masonry
Institute, Annapolis Maryland Headquarters, May 30, 1987.
"Humanism and the Image of the Madonna in the Italian Renaissance,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art Sunday lecture series, 25 January 1987.
"A Coordinated Methodology for the Treatment and Study of the Peristyle
Garden Wall of the House of Menander, Pompeii; An Interim Report,"
International Institute for Conservation, Bologna Congress, Bologna
Italy, 22 September 1986.
"Restoration and Historical Investigation of the Peristyle Garden
Wall in the House of Menander Pompeii; an Interim Report," Williamstown
Regional Art Conservation Laboratory, Williamstown, Mass., March
1986.
"YUAG's Allegory of Modesty," Yale University Art Gallery,
'Art a la Carte' lecture series, 6 November 1985.
"The Excavation and Restoration of an Ensemble by Raphael and Sansovino
in Sant'Agostino, Rome," Symposium: From the Stone Age to Recent
Times; Current Research in Archaeology, New Haven Chapter of
the Archaeological Institute of America, 30 march l985.
"Raphael's Isaiah in Sant'Agostino; Conservation Issues,"
Symposium: Homage to Raphael, Columbia University, 22 October
1983.
"The Saint Anne altar in Sant'Agostino, Rome; restoration and interpretation,"
given:
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Clark
Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass, March 1986. |
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Department
of Renaissance Studies, Yale University, November 1982. |
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Institute
of Fine Arts, Friday lecture series, May 1981. |
Sant'Agostino, Rome; inaugural address for the Mostra on
the restoration of the ensemble, January 1981.
"Raphael's Transfiguration," Yale University Art Gallery,
'Art a la Carte' lecture series for the special exhibition of the
Polaroid copy of the painting, December 1981. |
| Other
Activities: |
Curator and
Project Organizer, "Bleu, Blanc, Rouge; Red, White and Blue: A Star
Spangled Celebration of Life and Art in Tribute to the Indomitable
Spirit of New York" - major exhibition focusing on French Modern
masters and Post War American art organized in conjunction with
public, civic, private and business organizations in Paris and NYC,
projected for Summer / Fall 2002.
Guest curator, "Get Real: Contemporary American Realism from the
Seavest Collection," Duke University Museum of Art, April 4 - July
6, 1997.
Curator and director of restoration of the newly discovered masterpiece
by Andrea del Sarto, entitled, Portrait of a Gentleman, oil
on canvas, ca. 1525.
Guest curator, "L'Alta Fantasia: Saints, Angels and Other
Heavenly Creations," in conjunction with the Schmidt Bingham Gallery.
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On
exhibit at:
Schmidt Bingham Gallery, NYC, November 26 - December 20, 1990
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Tennessee,
January 4 - February 10, 1991
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 20
- April 7, 1991. |
Manuscript reader, Getty Grant Program, J. Paul Getty Trust, October
1989.
Consultant for Oxford University Press, Reference Text Division,
1985.
Developer, director and chairperson, Board of Governors, the Yale
Conservation Project, 1983-85.
Art Historian and co-director with L. and P. Mora, Istituto Centrale
per il Restauro (ICR, Rome) and G. Torraca, University of Rome,
of mural restorations, House of Menander, Pompeii, Spring 1985-Winter
1986. |
| Publications
and Research in Progress: |
Various essays
on the subjects of culture and the arts for The The Mnemosyne Foundation
web site.
Survey text on the subject of Post War American figural art and
realism in conjunction with the exhibition "Bleu, Blanc, Rouge:
Red, White and Blue."
Various post-restoration publications regarding the restoration
of Saint Anne altar in Sant'Agostino, Rome (an ensemble of sculpture,
painting, and poetry, of the Roman High Renaissance; principal components:
St. Anne, Virgin and Child, life-size marble figural group
by Andrea Sansovino, and Prophet Isaiah, fresco by Raphael,
1512).
Essays on individual artists for the in house catalogue of the Segal
Family Art Portfolio and Seavest Collection of Contemporary American
Realism.
Condition reports, documentation of authenticity and essays on historical
context for Old Master objects acquired under aegis of Virginia
Anne Bonito Fine Arts, Inc.
Publication on the newly discovered Portrait of a Gentleman,
Andrea del Sarto, oil on canvas, ca. 1525.
Editor and co-author, Documentation Report, House of Menander, Pompeii,
Restoration Project. |
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