Università Roma Tre

Rome's great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century collections: formation and dispersion.

The course will examine the major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections, from the Borghese to the Colonna, from the Rospigliosi to the Doria Pamphilj, and follow their development and eventual dispersal patterns.

To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate that he or she has critically studied the following texts:

(a) M.T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo “studiolo” alla raccolta pubblica, Milan, Mondadori, 2011, or A. MacGregor., Curiosity and Enlightenment. Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2007.
(b) a selection of texts that will be communicated during the course (and updated here by December 2024), such as F. Haskell, La dispersione e la conservazione del patrimonio artistico, in Storia dell'arte italiana, Parte terza, vol. III, Einaudi, Torino, 1981, pp. 5-35.
(c) teaching materials (ppt and selection of primary and secondary sources).