Tag: Connoisseurship

Free Download Frans Hals or not Frans Hals: Connoisseurship, Technical Analysis and Digital Tools by Anna Tummers , Robert G. Erdmann
English | EPUB (True) | 2025 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 3031594886 | 387.1 MB
Frans Hals is hailed as one of the three greatest painters of the Dutch seventeenth century along with Rembrandt and Vermeer. Of all seventeenth-century Dutch painters, Frans Hals is also the most controversial in as far as the exact scope of his oeuvre is concerned. Hals’s popularity, the lack of technical reference material as well as the differing views among experts as to the exact scope of his oeuvre make works in his style prone to doubts and misattributions. It has led to fierce debates and legal battles about the attribution of paintings done in his style.

Free Download Connoisseurship edited by Peter Stewart, Christina M. Anderson
English | July 11, 2023 | ISBN: 019092358X | True PDF | 256 pages | 38.9 MB
Despite the central importance of connoisseurship in the rarefied world of art collecting, it occupies an uncomfortable position in modern scholarship. On the one hand, the concept retains a significant role in the study of art and the care of public and private collections when it is linked with art appreciation, qualities visible to the attuned eye, or the processes of attribution and authentication. On the other hand, the last century has seen connoisseurship marginalized in academic discourse: it is often associated with amateurism, social elitism, status-display, and intellectual mystification.