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Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction

Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online Brill

Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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2214-5966
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10.1163/22145966-06901002
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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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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online – Brill

Published: May 20, 2020

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