Word: connoisseurship
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...These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...
...first-rate intellectual detective story and a fascinating photographic lecture in connoisseurship. In 1942 New York Art Dealer Piero Tozzi acquired a dirt-encrusted Renaissance statue of a boy seated on a rock. A sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number...
...talk, reputedly the first given at the University on problems in oenology, or the connoisseurship of fine wines, will feature audience participation. Misch believes the lecture will help College men appreciate wine...
...English translation, has enough literary and historical value to make it worth reading. The novel lacks, and needs, a scholarly introduction, but that is asking a great deal; Grove Press deserves credit for publishing the work at all, at a time when most of the publishing industry has abandoned connoisseurship for cost accounting...
Though he was 85 when he began these tours around Italy the North Coast of Africa, his age none of his enthusiasm for As the first man to devote his to connoisseurship, to authenticate paintings and drawings, B.B. approached his work and his life with and brilliance of intellect...