Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction
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Connoisseurship, the determination of similarity and difference and assessment of quality in works of art and material culture, remains controversial. Long reviled as outmoded and elitist, subjective and intuitive, tainted by the market, and overly invested in a mystified artist and a fetishized masterpiece, connoisseurship is seeing a resurgence. It once again is understood to be an ever-evolving art historical method foundational to the study of the object. It is also a practice with a history that, especially in the early modern period, was closely tied to knowledge. This introduction considers the centrality of identification and attribution to the discipline, offers speculation as to why connoisseurship came to be so denigrated, looks briefly at how science and neuroscience are transforming connoisseurship, and summarizes the volume’s 10 essays and how each advances ‘new connoisseurships’ in dealing with issues in the history of the connoisseurship of Netherlandish art.
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Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction
In: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek OnlineSearch for other papers by H. Perry Chapman in
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Google Scholar
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Search for other papers by Thijs Weststeijn in
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PubMed
Connoisseurship, the determination of similarity and difference and assessment of quality in works of art and material culture, remains controversial. Long reviled as outmoded and elitist, subjective and intuitive, tainted by the market, and overly invested in a mystified artist and a fetishized masterpiece, connoisseurship is seeing a resurgence. It once again is understood to be an ever-evolving art historical method foundational to the study of the object. It is also a practice with a history that, especially in the early modern period, was closely tied to knowledge. This introduction considers the centrality of identification and attribution to the discipline, offers speculation as to why connoisseurship came to be so denigrated, looks briefly at how science and neuroscience are transforming connoisseurship, and summarizes the volume’s 10 essays and how each advances ‘new connoisseurships’ in dealing with issues in the history of the connoisseurship of Netherlandish art.
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