The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early-19th-Century Europe Valentine Gifts unification under Rome and the

unification under Rome and the subsequent break up into Western Christendom

and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire

first published in Latin in 1565

Janice Carlson

It also includes the first English translations of the prefaces and afterword that Wölfflin himself added to later editions

The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early-19th-Century Europe Valentine Gifts unification under Rome and theEdited by Carole Paul In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first modern, public museums of artcivic, state, or nationalappeared throughout Europe, setting a standard for the nature of such institutions that has made its influence felt to the present day. Although the emergence of these museums was an international development, their shared history has not been systematically explored until now. Taking up that project, this volume