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A connoisseur (French traditional, pre-1835, spelling of connaisseur, from Middle-French connoistre, then connaître meaning 'to be acquainted with' or 'to know somebody/something') is a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts; who is a keen appreciator of cuisines, fine wines, and other gourmet products; or who is an expert judge in matters of taste.
Among US collectors of the early 1900s, Berenson was regarded as the pre-eminent authority on Renaissance art.Early in his career, Berenson developed his own unique method of connoisseurship by combining the comparative examination techniques of Giovanni Morelli with the aesthetic idea put forth by John Addington Symonds that something of an artist's personality could be detected through his ...
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Giovanni Morelli. Giovanni Morelli (25 February 1816 – 28 February 1891) was an Italian art critic and political figure. [1] As an art historian, he developed the "Morellian" technique of scholarship, identifying the characteristic "hands" of painters through scrutiny of diagnostic minor details that revealed artists' scarcely conscious shorthand and conventions for portraying, for example ...
The Connoisseur, a periodical on fine art, collectables and antique furniture founded in 1901, closed in 1992; The Connoisseur, a London weekly 18th century newspaper; The Connoisseur, a 1962 work by Norman Rockwell; Connoisseur Society, a US audiophile classical and music jazz record label; Other uses:
The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.
These new discourses in art history focused on the relevance of art to social constructs, ignoring traditional approaches and terms like “connoisseurship”, “quality”, “style”, and “genius”. Interestingly, technical art history is not a part of the ‘new’ art histories, even though the establishment of the field was in full ...
The chapter The Arts as Means of Enhancement is a collection of cross-cultural evidence for instances that fall under Dissanayake's definition of art; a criticism of narrow European-centered notions of art in the 19th and 20th century. This criticism is developed further in the books' last chapter that advocates the necessity to promote art in ...