Die Selbstbildnissammlung der Medici 1650-1723: Frühneuzeitliche Strategien zur Auslotung und Formung von Evidenz

Anna Maria Jonietz

Oct 2025 · Ars et Scientia Book 32 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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The 'Galleria degli Autoritratti' in the Uffizi, Florence, is the largest collection of artists' self-portraits in the world. It was founded in 1650 by Leopoldo de' Medici, and his heir Cosimo III expanded and reorganized it. Assisted by a network of agents and guided by empirical research criteria, the two patrons acquired only genuine self-portraits. The outcome was a unique, special collection closely linked to the epistemological approaches of the 17th century. Anna Maria Jonietz is the first to analyze the art-theoretical and academic-historical aspects of the 'Galleria.' She sheds light on the strategies of showing and convincing and demonstrates how the historical exhibition concept enabled a visual study of art and its history.

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Anna Maria Jonietz, Studium der Italianistik und Kunstgeschichte an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und der Università di Catania. 2018-2021 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im DFG-Projekt "Die Galleria degli Autoritratti der Uffizien. Zu den Produktionsbedingungen, Rezeptionsweisen und Ordnungsmodellen von Künstlerselbstbildnissen in einer neuzeitlichen Sammlung" sowie Stipendiatin am Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut. Nach ihrer Promotion 2023 an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf war sie ebd. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Lehrbeauftragte; derzeit Referentin an der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. Zu ihren Forschungsgebieten zählen Kunsttheorie und Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit sowie sozialhistorische Untersuchungen zur Künstlerpersönlichkeit.

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