«Die beste Theorie der Kunst ist ihreGeschichte»: origini e sviluppi di unadisciplina che disciplina Alexander Auf der Heyde This essay examines the ambivalent origins of art-history teaching within European academies of finearts, tracing its emergence to the intersection of Romantic historicism and the disciplinary politics of theRestoration. Focusing on the pioneering case of Vienna’s Academy…

La résistible naissance desenseignements théoriques et del’Histoire de l’art à l’École desBeaux-Arts de Paris (1791-1864) François-René Martin À qui l’histoire de l’art appartient-elle ? Aux artistes ou bien aux savants, archéologues ou historiensde l’art ? Dans l’histoire de l’école des Beaux-Arts de Paris, la réforme de 1863 constitue une date clé : lemoment où des…

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of SanFernando. Sources and Documents ofa pedagogical referent (1752–1967) Rosa María Recio Aguado The San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1752 to train artists: painters, sculptors andarchitects. A century later, in 1844, art teaching was discontinued at the academy and was transferred tothe Special School…

L’arte italiana tra promozione econservatorismo nelle aule e nelle saledella Royal Academy of Arts di Londra Eduardo De Maio This essay examines the ambivalent status of Italian art within the Royal Academy of Arts in London, fromits foundation in 1768 through the early twentieth century. While antique sculpture and, subsequently,the Italian old masters — above…

Gli insegnamenti teorici all’Accademiadi Belle Arti di Carrara dall’origine allaRestaurazione: docenti e materialedidattico Marco Ciampolini This essay reconstructs the slow emergence of theoretical instruction — and specifically Art History — atthe Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, founded in 1769 with an exclusively practical, trade-oriented mission.Drawing on archival inventories, teaching regulations, and correspondence, it traces…

Gli elogi annuali all’Accademia diVenezia dal 1808 al 1866: una formadi Storia dell’arte, tra erudizione ecelebrazione Paolo Pastres This essay examines the annual elogi delivered at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts between 1809 and1865, a distinctive genre of academic oratory commemorating past masters of the Venetian school on theoccasion of the prize-giving ceremonies. Situating…

La Storia dell’arte all’Accademia diFirenze come storia educativa e civile:una traccia negli anni postunitari e inCamillo Jacopo Cavallucci Cristina Frulli This essay traces the emergence of art history as a civic and educational discipline at the Accademia diBelle Arti di Firenze in the decades following Italian unification, focusing on Camillo Jacopo Cavallucci andhis intellectual milieu….

«A lume aperto».Estetica, storia dell’arte e prassiartistica a Bologna tra due secoli.La figura del Segretario dall’AccademiaClementina all’Accademia di Belle Arti Francesca Lui This essay traces the institutional and intellectual role of the Secretary within Bologna’s art academies— from the Accademia Clementina (1710) to the Accademia di Belle Arti — between the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries. Beginning…

Dal Bello ideale al Vero (ideale?).La difficile conquista della Storia nei“Discorsi parenetici” dell’AccademiaProvinciale di Belle Arti di Ravenna Alberto Giorgio Cassani This essay examines the Discorsi parenetici delivered annually at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Ravennabetween 1829 and 1921, tracing the institution’s ideological evolution from a Bello ideale rooted in CatholicPlatonism to an increasingly…

L’insegnamento storico-artisticonell’Accademia di Napoli. Origini,pratiche e tracce materiali nella primametà dell’Ottocento Federica De Rosa