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Mariette and the science of the connoisseur in eighteenth-century Europe
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- Creator
- by Kristel Smentek
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781472438027, 1472438027
- OCLC
- ocn880929772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-292) and index.
- Introduction: art history and the eighteenth-century connoisseur -- Knowledge economies of the eighteenth-century print trade -- Family fortunes -- The business of collecting -- The Prince Eugene commission: a ready-made print collection -- The recueil, or the collection reproduced -- The making of a drawings connoisseur -- Networks -- Seeing through drawings -- The emergence of the expert -- The science of the connoisseur -- The collector's cut -- Framing the tableau -- The coup d'oeil -- The knowing hand -- Origins: of antiquarianism, aesthetics, and history -- Publishing the Traité des pierres gravées -- From antiquarianism to art -- The progress of art -- Conclusion: the Mariette sales