Connoisseurship Flashcards
Connoisseurship
Passing judgement on authenticity and authorship
Close and repeated observation of the formal traits of work
Morelli
A natural history of art
Evidence in the visual forms given in the artwork itself
First task = dileanating the regional differences that separated the schools of the Italian Renaissance
Also trusted intuition
Notion of types
Criticism
The procedure of attribution
Underlying belief in metaphysics of individuality
Metaphysics of vision/individuality
Centred around the concepts of individuality and particularity
When individual artists are at their most particular they achieve their highest worth and give fullest expression to what is most distinctive in their culture