Introduction: the grand tour and princely collections in Rome / Carole Paul -- Capitoline Museum in Rome: civic identity and personal cultivation / Carole Paul -- British Museum, London: institutionalizing enlightenment / Robert G. W. Anderson -- Uffizi Gallery, Florence: the rebirth of a museum in the eighteenth century / Paula Findlen -- Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican City: ideology and aesthetics in the age of the grand tour / Jeffrey Collins -- The picture galleries of Dresden, Düsseldorf, and Kassel: princely collections in eighteenth century Germany / Tristan Weddigen -- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Belvedere Vienna: dynasticism and the function of art / Michael Yonan -- Nationalmuseum, royal museum, Stockholm: connecting north and south / Magnus Olausson and Solfrid Söderlind -- Musée du Louvre, Paris: palace of the people, art for all / Andrew McClellan -- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid: absolutism and nationalism in early-nineteenth-century Madrid / Andrew Schulz -- National Gallery, London: for all ranks and degrees of men / Brandon Taylor -- Altes Museum, Berlin: building Prussia's first modern museum / Thomas W. Gaehtgens -- Glyptothek and Alte Pinakothek, Munich: museums as public monuments / Adrian von Buttlar and Bénédicte Savoy.
Subject Terms:
Art museums -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. | Art museums -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.