Resumen de "Eine chronologische Historie der Mahlerey in Gemählden". Vorschläge aus dem Jahre 1771 zu einer Neuordnung der Dresdner Gemäldegalerie
The writer discusses a suggestion made by Ludwig Siegfried I. Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt in 1771 that the painting collection at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, be reorganized. Vitzthum's very progressive idea of arranging the paintings in chronological order is astounding, given that the first chronological hanging of paintings in a museum context was only realized ten years later in Vienna. A chronological hanging was introduced in the Dresden museum in 1825.
