Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 69 (2019)

Connoisseurship and the Knowledge of Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40916-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 202 mm x 266 mm, Gewicht: 1451 g

Reihe: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek

Connoisseurship – once foundational, then controversial, and currently critically reconsidered – is fundamentally about knowledge. Focusing on the distinctive history of the connoisseurship of Netherlandish art, this volume investigates early modern connoisseurship as revealed through pictorial practice, texts, and pictures featuring art lovers. An interplay between possessing and knowing about art emerges in the collecting of Chinese porcelain in the eighteenth century. With the professionalization of art criticism in the nineteenth century, Rembrandt’s art becomes a locus of scrutiny. In the twentieth century, the introduction of scientific data complicates the art historian’s expertise, whereas the case of Mondrian shows how modernist criticism and connoisseurship are intricately interwoven. Finally, persisting tensions between connoisseurship, authorship, and the market are brought to the fore.

Table of Contents

1. H. Perry Chapman, Thijs Weststeijn, Connoisseurship as knowledge. An introduction

2. E. Melanie Gifford, Pieter Bruegel’s afterlife. A visual metaphor in seventeenth-century landscape

3. Jan Blanc, Mettre des mots sur l’art. Peintres et connaisseurs dans la théorie de l’art française et néerlandaise du XVIIe siècle

4. Alexander Marr, Ingenuity and discernment in The cabinet of Cornelis van der Geest (1628)

5. Tiarna Doherty, Painting connoisseurship. Liefhebbers in the studio

6. Angela Ho, Exotic and exclusive. The Pronk porcelain as products for the connoisseur

7. Antoinette Friedenthal, John Smith’s Rembrandt research project. An art dealer establishes the first catalogue raisonné of the paintings (1836)

8. Catherine B. Scallen, Rembrandt print connoisseurship, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, and the etching revival of the nineteenth century

9. Suzanne Laemers, In de voetsporen van Max Friedländer. Een pleidooi voor het kennerschap aan de hand van het Werlaltaarstuk

10. Marek Wieczorek, Greenberg’s connoisseurship in Mondrian’s space

11. Anne-Sophie V.E. Radermecker, The market reception of ‘new connoisseurship’. The impact of recent advances in art scholarship on the selling and buying of early Flemish paintings

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chapman, H. Perry

Weststeijn, Thijs

Meijers, Dulcia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

H. Perry Chapman (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware and a specialist in the art and visual culture of the Dutch seventeenth century. She is former editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin.

Thijs Weststeijn is Professor of Art History before 1800 at Utrecht University, where he focuses on the art of the Dutch Golden Age and its global context. He chairs the research projects Histories of Global Netherlandish Art, 1550-1750 and The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age.

Dulcia Meijers is Executive Director of Emerson College’s European Center in the Netherlands, where she teaches Art History of the early modern times. Her focus is on Italy and the Mediterranean world, with particular emphasis on the cultural and architectural history of the city-state of Venice and it’s artistic relations with the North.