Collectors, Agents, Art Dealers. The Rise and Expansion of Vienna's Art Market (17th–18th Century)

Thursday, 13 November 2025

9:30-10:00 Welcome
Thomas Wallnig, Vice Dean, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Silvia Tammaro for the Vienna Center for the History of Collecting

Panel Session I: Agents, Collectors and Collections
Chair: Roswitha Juffinger

10:00-10:30
Tina Košak (Maribor University) Circulation of Artworks in the Late 17th and Early 18th Century Aristocratic Collections: Some Styrian and Carniolan Cases

10:30-11:00
Katharina Leithner (Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections) Viele Wege führen nach Wien. Transport, Transaktionen und Logistik am Beispiel der Fürstlichen Sammlungen Liechtenstein

11:30-12:00
Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) A Banker for Maratta: Financial and Logistical Networks between Italy and Vienna (17th–18th Centuries)

12:00-12:30
Chiara Petrolini (Università di Bologna) Manuscript Markets: Sebastian Tengnagel and the Trade in ‘Oriental’ Books

Panel Session II: The emergence of the art market
Chair: Cecilia Mazzetti di Pietralata

14:00-14:30
Christof Jeggle (Universität Wien) The Constitution of Art Markets: Shipping Art on the Danube to Vienna

14:30-15:00
Anja Grebe (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) Art dealing and connoisseurship. Dürer collectors, Dürer forgeries, and the Viennese art market in the pre-modern era

15:30-16:00
Gernot Mayer (Universität Wien) Bewerten und Verwerten: Bilderschätzer als Protagonisten des Wiener Kunsthandels

16:00-16:30
Paolo Coen (Università di Teramo) Tra Roma e Vienna: dinamiche del mercato artistico nel XVIII secolo

16:30-17:00
Silvia Tammaro (Universität Wien) The art dealer Artaria: At the heart of the network of collectors and artists between Italy and Vienna

Keynote Lecture
17:30 Koenraad Jonckheere (Ghent University) Late 17th Century art markets. A review and a preview

Friday, 14 November 2025
Department of Art History, University of Vienna, Seminar Room 1, Garnisongasse 13, 1090 Vienna

Panel Session III: International Networks of Exchange and Production
Chair: Silvia Tammaro

9:30-10:00
Marco Coppe (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) Networks of taste: Silverwork and porcelain between Tuscany and Vienna through models and collecting (17th–18th Centuries)

10:00-10:30
Claudia Lehner-Jobst (Porzellanmuseum im Augarten Wien) 'Wisdom must be the guide to success.' Enlightened marketing strategies and operations at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Vienna

10:30-11:00
Bernhard Woytek (Universität Wien) Collecting ancient coins in 18th-century Vienna: a general framework and some case studies

11:30-12:00
Martina Fleischer (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) …in Rücksicht der ausserordentlichen guten Wahl von schönsten und seltenstenn Gemälden… Die Sammlung Lamberg-Sprinzenstein und ihre Entstehung in Wien um 1800

Methodological Outlook
12:00-12:30 Christian Huemer (Belvedere Research Center Wien) Perspectives on the Study of Art Markets

Concluding Discussions