Introduzione Valeria Paruzzo, Sara Tonni

Carlo Amoretti e le raccolte naturalistico-antiquarie tra Sette e Ottocento: incontri e scambi tra Lombardia e Veneto Giovanni Truglia This paper investigates the collecting notes in the writings of Carlo Amoretti (1741-1816), scholar, naturalist, and prominent figure in the cultural scene of Milan in the second half of the 18th century. In his numerous manuscripts,…

Verso la creazione di una «piccola collezione»: marchand-amateurs e antiquari nei carteggi di Bertel Thorvaldsen Sara Tonni This contribution considers the role of Bertel Thorvaldsen (Copenhagen, 1770-1844) in a perspective that has not yet been adequately investigated, that is as a collector of Italian Old Masters paintings. The paper intends to focus on the relationships…

La quadreria Camuccini: genesi e dispersione di una collezione nella Roma ottocentesca Pier Ludovico Puddu The contribution traces and summarizes the salient moments in the history of the Camuccini picture gallery, established in the early Nineteenth century by the Roman art restorer and dealer Pietro Camuccini, and subsequently dismembered by his heir Giovanni Battista Camuccini…

Periti rigattieri, mercanti, agenti tra Pesaro e Roma, con una digressione lombarda Maria Maddalena Paolini This study is based on archive documents concerning the business activities of various second-hand dealers and art appraisers in Pesaro. Their business was regulated by the Ministry of Trade, which issued professional licences. The paper describes the leading figures on…

Antiquari e gallerie commerciali nella Venezia asburgica Valeria Paruzzo The present article focuses on the gradual transformation of the dynamics, the protagonists, and the topography of the trade in Old Master paintings in Venice, after the Fall of the Serenissima in 1797. It traces a chronology of the activity of the emerging figures of professional…

I Valania-Arrigoni: una dinastia di intermediari attivi nel Lombardo-Veneto nel XIX secolo Olga Piccolo The contribution aims to offer new insights into a little-known dynasty of intermediaries, although active in the Lombardy-Veneto region and internationally for over a century. The progenitor was Ignazio Valania, who in the first two decades of the 19th century, knew…

Capolavori in fuga. Gli affari dell’antiquario milanese Giuseppe Baslini a Londra, Berlino e Parigi Martina Colombi Regarded as the most important art dealer active in Milan in the second half of the 19th century, Giuseppe Baslini (1817-1887) was a true self-made man: thanks to his exceptional connoisseurship and his unscrupulous business flair, he transformed and…

La vendita della collezione Rinuccini di Firenze: un episodio di mercato al tramonto del Granducato* Luca Giacomelli In May 1852, the auction of the Rinuccini collection took place in Florence: in the space of a month, one of the city’s oldest and most intact collections, consisting of around seven hundred works of art from every…