Art and Its Geographies - Configuring Schools of Art in Europe (1550-1815)

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially denotes a group of artists or artworks, it came to be configured in multiple ways, encompassing different meanings of learning, origin, style, or nation, and mediated in various forms via academies, literature, collections, markets and galleries. Moreover, it contributed to competitive debate around the hierarchy of art and artists in Europe. The ensuing fundamental instability of the notion of a school of art helped to create a pluriform panorama of both distinct and interconnected artistic traditions within the European art world. This edited collection brings together 20 articles devoted to selected case studies from the Italian peninsula, the Low Countries, France, Spain, England, the German Empire, and Russia.

List of contents

INTRODUCTION, ACADEMIES OF ART, CHURCHES, AND COLLECTIVE ARTISTIC IDENTITIES, ART LITERATURE, ARTISTS, AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES, DRAWINGS, CONNOISSEURSHIP, AND GEOGRAPHY, TASTE AND GENIUS OF NATIONS, PRINTS, COLLECTING, AND CLASSIFICATION, ART MARKETS: SELLING AND COLLECTING, ON PUBLIC DISPLAY IN PICTURE GALLERIES, CONTRIBUTORS, ILLUSTRATION CREDITS, INDEX

About the author

INGRID R. VERMEULEN is Associate Professor of Early-Modern Art History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the early-modern history of art history grounded in art literature, collections, and museums. It generated the book Picturing Art History (2010) and the project The Artistic Taste of Nations (2015) funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). .

Product details

• Assisted by: Ingrid Vermeulen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9781041175759
• ISBN: 978-1-041-17575-9
• No. of pages: 470
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Europe, The arts: general issues, ART / Museum Studies, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics, ART / European / General, ART / Movements / Baroque & Rococo