{"id":543,"date":"2011-01-04T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-01-04T00:50:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T05:50:23","slug":"art-at-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/art-at-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Art at Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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Art has long been an important offering in the curriculum at Notre Dame.\u00a0 “Drawing and painting have been always favorite studies at Notre Dame, and improvements will be made to render these studies more attractive during the coming year [1870-1871].\u00a0 Casts, busts, and valuable paintings will be procured for the use of the drawing class,\u00a0 directed by Prof. C.A.B. Von Weller and Bro. Albert” [University catalog, 1869-1870, page 71].<\/p>\n

\"\"Art class posed outside with their paintings and drawings, c1860s-1870s<\/em><\/p>\n

Notre Dame has also been able to attract notable artists to the faculty, such as Luigi Gregori, Rev. Anthony Lauck, CSC, and Ivan Mestrovic, whose works continue to adorn campus.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rev. Anthony Lauck teaching an Art Sculpture Class in a studio in the Main Building, Spring Semester 1953<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh and Ivan Mestrovic in an Art Studio, c1960s<\/em><\/p>\n

Notre Dame also has a long history of collecting art since the 1800s.\u00a0 In 1917, University\u00a0 President Rev. John Cavanaugh, CSC, obtained 136 paintings from Monseigneur Marois of Quebec.\u00a0 Charles Wightman added another 108 masterpieces and became benefactor of the Wightman Memorial Gallery, housed in the University Library (now Bond Hall).<\/p>\n

In 1932, the University hired Dr. Maurice H. Goldblatt as director of the Art Gallery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was a prominent authority on identifying originals from forgeries by examining chemical compositions of the paints and by using such tools as ultraviolet rays, x-rays, spectographs, and lightoscopes.\u00a0 He worked on many high-profile international cases, including forgeries of the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Maurice Goldblatt, Director of the Wightman Art Collection, beside the fireplace of Francisco Borgia II in the Frederick H. Wickett Memorial Collection, c1933<\/em><\/p>\n

The Snite Museum of Art<\/a> was dedicated in 1980.\u00a0 Notre Dame continues to collect and preserve important works and host traveling exhibits, including student work.\u00a0 As such, the Snite Museum of Art is a valuable resource to the University and to the broader community.<\/p>\n

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Sources:
\nUDIS 214\/29-30<\/a>
\nGSBA 2\/14<\/a>
\nGPHR 45\/1779<\/a>
\nGNDL 41\/18<\/a>
\nGDIS 51\/03<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>

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Art has long been an important offering in the curriculum at Notre Dame.\u00a0 “Drawing and painting have been always favorite studies at Notre Dame, and improvements will be made to render these studies more attractive during the coming year [1870-1871].\u00a0 Casts, busts, and valuable paintings will be procured for the use of the drawing class,\u00a0 … Continue reading “Art at Notre Dame”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,13],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nd-history","tag-academics","tag-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 11:29:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}