Picturing Art History
The Rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the Eighteenth Century
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
Today’s book buyer takes for granted that books on art history will be illustrated with quality full-color reproductions of famous masterpieces. Yet it was only in the eighteenth century that art books began to be illustrated. In Picturing Art History, Ingrid R. Vermeulen investigates the role that illustrations played in the emergence of the field of art history, arguing that the reproduction collections of such scholars as Giovanni Bottari, Johann Winckelmann, and Jean-Baptiste Seroux d’Agincourt led to the belief that the artistic past should not be pictured as a history of artists, but as a history of works.
1. Unfulfilled Projects to Illustrate Vasari: Bottari, Corsini's Print Collection and the Rise of Art-historical Illustration
The Visualisation of Artistic Progress in Print Collections
The Corsini Collection and its Discontents
From Print Collecting into Art-historical Illustration
2. The Artistic Past at a Glance: Winckelmann, Cavaceppi's Drawing Collection and the Short Life of Drawn Art Histories
The Prominence of Drawings
Connoisseurship and the Invention of Art History
The Cabinet of Art History
Drawings and the Illustration of Art History
3. The 'Histoire de l'Art par les Monumens': D'Agincourt, his Reproduction Collection and the Birth of the Illustrated Survey
The Book as Museum
Illustrating the Artistic Past
The Problem of Faithful Reproduction
The Realization of the Illustrated Overview
Conclusion
Appendices
Archival Material
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Art: Art--General Studies
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