ISBN 978-1-60606-453-5

beautifully lit and posed cartes-de-visite

She is curator of the exhibition A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography and has written about nineteenth-century photography

Andrei Molotiu received his Ph

The First Modern Museums of Art: The Birth of an Institution in 18th- and Early-19th-Century Europe CAAMEMBER ISBN 978-1-60606-453-5Edited 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