Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. Art and Its Geographies: Configuring Schools of Art in Europe (1550–1815) 9
5. Academies of Art, Churches, and Collective Artistic Identities
6. 1. Notions of Nationhood and Artistic Identity in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rome 37
7. 2. A Failed Attempt to Establish a Spanish Art Academy in Rome (1680) : A New Reading of Archival Documents 63
8. 3. Mantua: A School of History and Heritage (1752–1797) 81
9. Art Literature, Artists, and Transnational Identities
10. 4. Conceptualising Schools of Art: Giovanni Battista Agucchi’s (1570–1632) Theory and Its Afterlife 103
11. 5. Claimed By All or Too Elusive to Include : The Appreciation of Mobile Artists by Netherlandish Artists’ Biographers 127
12. 6. The Galeriewerk and the Self-Fashioning of Artists at the Dresden Court 147
13. Drawings, Connoisseurship, and Geography
14. 7. Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635–1714) and the Italian Schools of Design 163
15. 8. Connoisseurship beyond Geography : Some Puzzling Genoese Drawings from Filippo Baldinucci’s (1624–1696) Personal Collection 185
16. 9. Arthur Pond’s (1705–1758) Prints in Imitation of Drawings (1734–1736) : Old Masters, Copies, and the National School in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain 205
17. Taste and Genius of Nations
18. 10. ‘Taste of Nations’: Roger de Piles’ (1635–1709) Diplomatic Take on the European Schools of Art 225
19. 11. How Do Great Geniuses Appear in a Nation? A Political Problem for the Enlightenment Period 249
20. Prints, Collecting, and Classification
21. 12. Dezallier d’Argenville’s (1680–1765) Concept of a Print Collection: By Topic or by School? 265
22. 13. Michael Huber’s (1727–1804) Notices (1787) and Manuel (1797–1808): A Comparative Analysis of the French School of the Eighteenth Century 289
23. 14. Chronology and School : Questioning Two Competing Criteria for the Classification of Print Collections around 1800 311
24. Art Markets: Selling and Collecting
25. 15. The Eighteenth-Century Art Market and the Northern and Southern Netherlandish Schools of Painting: Together or Apart? 327
26. 16. The Print Collector Pieter Cornelis van Leyden (1717–1788) : Art Literature, Concepts of School, and the Genesis of a Connoisseur 349
27. 17. The Problem of European Painting Schools in the Context of the Russian Enlightenment : Alexander Stroganoff (1733–1811) and His Catalogue (1793, 1800, 1807) 371
28. On Public Display in Picture Galleries
29. 18. Everyman’s Aesthetic Considerations on a Visible History of Art: Joseph Sebastian von Rittershausen’s (1748–1820) Betrachtungen (1785) on Christian von Mechel’s (1737–1817) Work at the Imperial Picture Gallery in Vienna 391
30. 19. An Organisation by Schools Considered Too Commercial for the Newly Founded Louvre Museum 413
31. 20. Scuole Italiane or Scuola Italiana? Art Display, Historiography, Cultural Nationalism, and the Newly Founded Pinacoteca Vaticana (1817) 435
32. Illustration Credits 459
33. Index 461