Storiche dell’arte nella prima metà del Novecento. Un approccio prosopografico

On the basis of an essentially prosopographical approach and with the help of the correspondence between Adolfo Venturi, holder from 1901 of the first chair of art history established in Italian universities, and some of his numerous students at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, as well as the documentation relating to the Postgraduate School in Medieval and Modern Art History established in 1901 at the Faculty of Humanities at the same university, the authors aim to illuminate the characteristics and modalities of the gradual rise, in the period between the two world wars, of the first generation of art historians engaged in various capacities in studies and research in the sector, in school and university teaching and in the administration and management of antiquities and fine arts.