Sentences with phrase «italian folktales»

In references, for example, to nineteenth - century American clipper ships, Civil War battles, endangered and extinct birds, Formula 1 racetracks, Italian folktales, and Herman Melville's Moby - Dick, the titles add another sensuous dimension to Stella's richly layered art.

This print is from the, «Italian Folktales» series (1984 - 87).

Suggested Reading One Thousand and One Nights Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions A. S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul; The Black Book Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh Jane Smiley, Ten Days in the Hills

Translated into English, the title means «The Peacock Feather» and is named for an Italian folktale that reminds us of the artist's ancestry in Sicily.