Connoisseurship
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The discovery of a ceiling canvas taken from a painting by Gaetano Gandolfi in a private house in Mahon sheds new light on his fame and the fame of his son Mauro, an engraver.
Where could St. Petersburgers see and learn about works of art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Most scholarly literature about this period dwells on the absence of art on public view in Russia's capital, relieved only by... more
Le présent article traite d'un portrait retrouvé d'un membre de la famille Millet par Giovanni Caracca, peintre de la cour de Savoie à la fin du XVIe siècle.
The assumptions Benjamin appropriated are dead on accurate. As uncannily prophetic his assumptions are -- his predictions are off. This comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. CLICK ON LINK TO READ THE REVIEW ON... more
Attribution of paintings is a critical problem in art history. This study extends machine learning analysis to surface topography of painted works. A controlled study of positive attribution was designed with paintings produced by a class... more
The monumental nine-volume Catalogue Raisonné by the London art dealer John Smith (1781-1855), covering the works of 41 painters, appeared between 1829 and 1842. In spite of the common recognition of its importance by the specialized... more
For more than fifty years, Stefano Bardini transacted incredible quantities of Italian Renaissance art and decorative art on the global art market. On the basis of new archival research, this talk examines Bardini’s strategies for... more
On calligraphy of Yuan taoist priest Xue Xi (1289-1345), NPM Monthly, Feb. 2018.
First studied essentially for their iconographic representations, Greek vases were increasingly studied for their style when issues of artistic individualities and stylistic affinities became reachable. The basis for stylistic analysis... more
This richly illustrated book provides an overview of all known Dutch and Flemish artists up to the nineteenth century who painted or drew flower pieces, or else made prints of them. Unlike many mainstream art historical studies, the book... more
This report considers the changing folk art connoisseurship in Beijing, set against the rise of private collecting, Chinese folklore markets, and folklore connoisseurship in the 2000s. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, the... more
"Discerning the Painter's Hand" (Heritage Science) featured as a research highlight in Nature.
Exhibition catalogue on some thirty Bolognese Baroque and Rococo paintings from the Opera Pia dei Poveri Vergognosi, Bologna.
From: M. Cardinali, M.B. De Ruggieri, “Kurze aber wahre Geschichte” der caravaggesken Technik, in W. Prohaska, G. Swoboda, Caravaggio und der internationale Caravaggismus, pp. 20-57, Wien-Milano 2010. Comprehensive interpretation of the... more
"During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, pioneering books on art theory— by Richardson, Piles, Lairesse, and many others—formulated benchmark criteria to assess the quality of paintings and shaped a canon of favorite... more
“Some Comments on Correggio in Connection with his Pictures in Dresden,” is here identified as the earliest publication on the connoisseurship of Italian Renaissance painting by renowned connoisseur Bernard Berenson. The evolution of the... more
Simple methods are tested for morphometric study of bell-kraters and applied in conjunction with the stylistic study to the bell-kraters of the Telos Group, which includes the Telos, Oxford Griphomachy, Retorted and Black Thyrsus Painters... more
Catherine II of Russia was one of the greatest rulers of her time. Even in an age of enlightened monarchy, she stands out for her political, military, and cultural achievements. Fittingly, she has bee the subject of any number of... more
The late Antique mosaic of Orpheus decorated a small room, approximately 18 m2 in area, connected with two even smaller ones, in 4 m2 and the other 2 m2 in area, belonging most likely to a small funerary chapel (or tomb) discovered in the... more
The first catalogue raisonné of Rembrandt’s paintings was established by the London art dealer John Smith. Published in 1836, it originated as part of a larger series, itself motivated by the author’s endeavour to transcend his daily... more
This paper deals with the House of Leukaktios, which has been discovered during Polish excavations at Ptolemais, Libya, in 2001 2007. The house has almost completely preserved mosaic pavements and the plan of Graeco-Roman type with an... more
On the theory of connoisseurship and the method of JD Beazley.
A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed a new and multi-faceted methodological approach. This book lays the foundation for a reassessment of this key fgure in... more
Bien que la céramique grecque, plus que toute autre forme de production antique, fournisse un répertoire abondant de signatures, de nombreux peintres resteraient anonymes s’ils n’avaient reçu de la part de leur inventeur des noms de... more
The introduction sets out why form remains central to thinking about modernism despite caricatures of formalist-modernism as involving only art-for-art's sake escapism and a drive towards 'pure' abstract art. Introducing a broad notion of... more