Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts
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art history
artistic expertise
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connoisseurship
connoisseurship studies
discernment
early modern
early modern material culture
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Europe
history of science
intellectual history
judgement
knowledge
Low Countries art history
science of art knowledge transfer
taste
visual analysis methods
workshop secrets
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- ISBN 9780367334079
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and became explicitly connected with a kind of knowledge available only to experts in the respective fields. With contributions by historians of art and historians of science, and with geographic coverage focusing on the Low Countries and their multiple connections to different parts of the world, this volume reframes recent scholarship on what the editors term ’cultures of knowledge and discernment’ in the early modern period. The collection is innovative in its focus on investigating types of knowledge linked to what was then called the ’science’ (scientia) of art, to artistic expertise and connoisseurship, and to ’secrets of art and nature.’
Sven Dupré is Professor of History of Art, Science and Technology at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Christine Göttler is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
