Word: connoisseurship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulated for the show's handsome appearance. In one corner, the Fogg devotedly displays the death mask of the artist, wreathed by laurel leaves, and, in another, placed potted ivies. This tasteful presentation complements the subdued, distinctiveness of the works exhibited. It is also a tribute to the knowing connoisseurship of Stefa and Leon Brillouin who have over the years built up this valuable collection...
...Renaissance. In 1894 he published the first of his four famed guides to Renaissance art (later reissued as Italian Painters of the Renaissance), whose steady sale soon made him prosperous. Six years later he moved into his villa and settled down to the serious business of his life: connoisseurship. Berenson's mind overleaped the customary barriers of 19th-century art criticism. He was not content merely to record, or appraise, or even interpret. Instead, he analyzed what he saw, and thus helped raise art scholarship to a new plane of exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist...
...Worcester offers "opportunities of time and leisure for travel abroad, research and the pursuit of my literary interest in congenial and familiar surroundings, amongst old friends," he added, "and I will thus be able to devote the balance of my career to the scholarship and connoisseurship which originally attracted me to the profession...
Fogg Museum opened an exhibit yesterday that shows how a connoisseur can spot a painting as an original. The six-week display, "Connoisseurship Step by Step," features works by Durer, Degas, Toulouse-Lautree, Rembrandt, and Goya...