connoisseurship

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con·nois·seur

C0576900 (kŏn′ə-sûr′, -so͝or′)n.1. A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.2. A person of informed and discriminating taste: a connoisseur of fine wines.

[Obsolete French, from Old French connoisseor, from connoistre, to know, from Latin cognōscere, to learn, know; see cognition.]

con′nois·seur′ship′ n.

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Noun

connoisseurship - love of or taste for fine objects of artvertu, virtuappreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

Connoisseurship

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Connoisseurship

a trend in art studies that developed at the end of the 19th century. Art connoisseurs have included W. von Bode and M. Friedlander in Germany, B. Berenson in the United States, G. Morelli, A. Venturi, and R. Longhi in Italy, and C. Hofstede de Groot in Holland. The goals of art connoisseurs—the determination of the value of works of art and the discovery of new artworks—are achieved by detailed study, attribution (through the application of a connoisseur’s own artistic intuition, accumulated visual experience, and factual knowledge), description, and systematization of the particular works of art in question.

REFERENCE

Friedlander, M. Znatok iskusstva. Moscow, 1923.

connoisseurship

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Synonyms for connoisseurship

noun love of or taste for fine objects of art

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vertu
virtu

Related Words

appreciation
discernment
perceptiveness
taste

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