Rome’s collections and museums – a training ground for connoisseurs

SERIES: From VIVE to the city. The history of art in Rome in the 15th-20th centuries - Under the aegis of Silvia Ginzburg, professor of the History of Modern Art, Università di Roma Tre
SPEAKER: Donata Levi
DATE: Thursday 13 April, 6 pm 
PLACE: Palazzo Venezia, Sala del Refettorio

From the 1840s to the end of the century, Rome’s leading galleries (Borghese, Doria Pamphilj, Corsini) as too the sales of substantial collections (e.g. those of Cardinal Fesch and Marchese Giampietro Campana) offered fertile terrain for the quests of Europe’s leading connoisseurs, allowing the discovery of works previously passed unnoticed, revised attributions and updates. Notebooks and visual recording media, reports and estimates enable us to follow the often entangled paths of some of these figures – some the directors or operatives of large foreign museums, others collectors and dealers – providing an observation post for the dynamics of the dispersal/safeguarding of Rome’ art heritage. 

Donata Levi lectures on Museology and History of Art Criticism at the Università di Udine and is the head of LIDA (Laboratorio informatico per la documentazione storico artistica)–Fototeca at the Department of Humanistic Studies and the Cultural Heritage of the same university. She is president of the Fondazione Memofonte for the IT processing of Florentine historical/artistic sources (www.memofonte.it). Her principal research sectors are the history of art criticism in the 18th and 19th centuries (Lanzi, Cavalcaselle, Ruskin) and the history of the safeguarding of the cultural heritage, with special reference to the transfer, circulation and restitution of cultural assets, plus various aspects of 19th-20th-century museology.

Admission free subject to availability. 

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