Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute of Art History

, Italy. It was founded by a donation of Henriette Hertz in 1913 as a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. It is one of three institutes, of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft), not located in Germany. Since 1990 the Bibliotheca Hertziana awards every two years the Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize for outstanding merits in the field of Italian art and architectural history (...) +info