L’insegnamento della Storia dell’artenelle Accademie e Istituti di Belle Artidall’Unità alla riforma Gentile del 1923 Roberto Sani This essay traces the institutionalisation of art-history teaching in Italy’s Academies and Institutes of FineArts from Unification to the 1923 Gentile reform. It examines the discipline’s shifting nomenclature—from Estetica e storia dell’arte to Storia delle belle arti—across sixteen…

L’insegnamento della Storia dell’artenelle Accademie e Istituti di Belle Arti1923-1943 Susanne Adina Meyer This essay examines the teaching of art history in Italy’s Academies of Fine Arts and their attached artisticlyceums between the 1923 Gentile reform and the fall of the Fascist regime. It reconstructs the new legalframework distinguishing “artistic” from “general culture” subjects, the…

Fotografia e Storia dell’arteall’Accademia di Belle Arti di Breranell’Ottocento: il caso di GiuseppeMongeri Nicoletta Leonardi From the mid-nineteenth century, photography became a key tool for observing, comparing, andclassifying works of art, shaping art history as an academic discipline. Focusing on the Accademia di BelleArti di Brera and the figure of Giuseppe Mongeri, this essay examines…

Tracce per una storia della fotografiaproiettata. Le diapositive per la Storiadell’arte dell’Accademia di Belle Artidi Brera Greta Plaitano This essay examines the history of projected photography in art-historical teaching at the Accademia di BelleArti di Brera between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Drawing on unpublished archivalsources and a surviving corpus of 352 glass slides,…

«Parlare ad essi con linguaggioappropriato a pittori, a scultori, adecoratori». L’insegnamento dellaStoria dell’arte all’Accademia di Brera: ladocenza di Giulio Carotti (1902-1922). Edoardo Sala This essay reconstructs the professorship of Giulio Carotti (1902–1922), who taught art history at theAccademia di Belle Arti di Brera during a period of transition between the nineteenth-century academictradition and the university-based…

«Il professore […] non deve essere ilcritico ma bensì lo storico dell’arte».Storia dell’arte all’Accademia Albertina,1885-1900 Alessandro Botta This essay reconstructs the belated establishment of art history teaching at the Accademia Albertina inTurin between 1885 and 1900, from the “history and literature applied to the arts” chair held by GiuseppeGiacosa and then Corrado Corradino to its…

Notizie dei Professori di Storia dell’Artealle Belle arti di Roma reperibilinell’Archivio Storico dell’Accademia diBelle Arti di Roma Pietro Roccasecca Based on the personal files preserved in the Historical Archive of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, thisessay traces the succession of art history professors at the Roman institution from its foundation in 1873to the…

La costruzione della Storia dell’artecontemporanea italiana e le difficoltàdell’Accademia nelle biennali del 1948 e1950: il caso fiorentino Susanna Ragionieri This essay examines how, in the postwar reconstruction of Italian contemporary art history at the 1948and 1950 Venice Biennales, art historians such as Longhi, Venturi, Pallucchini and Ragghianti reshapedthe exhibition’s critical framework while simultaneously marginalising academy-trained…

La Storia dell’arte e i corsi specialiistituiti tra gli anni Settanta e Ottantadel Novecento all’Accademia di BelleArti di Firenze Francesco De Carolis This essay examines the introduction and development of the corsi speciali (special courses) at theAccademia di Belle Arti di Firenze between the 1970s and 1980s, set against the national debate on thestatus of…

The Academy in a State of Siege:Pictures of an Institution W. J. T. Mitchell The essay argues that the idea of the academy has always been shaped by a “state of siege,” from Plato’sgrove outside Athens to today’s culture wars and political attacks on higher education. Tracing the conceptthrough the etymology of demos, the rise…