书名：The Eye of the Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries
定价：420.0
ISBN：9781606060841
作者：Anna Tummers
版次：1

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书名：The Eye Of The Connoisseur: Authenticating Paintings By Rembrandt And His Contemporaries

作者：Anna Tummers

出版：HPB Distribution Center，2011

装帧：精装，400页

语种：英文

尺寸：19*24.7 cm

Attributing old master paintings is one of the most difficult tasks of the art historian. While authorship has important implications for the field of art history and for valuation, little has been written on the theory and techniques of the connoisseur’s work. This volume analyzes the role of the expert’s intuition along with efforts to develop scientific techniques.  

The author focuses on the challenges of attributing seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, then turns to investigating connoisseurship, arguing that to evaluate authenticity, it is necessary to understand what it meant when the paintings were created. Further discussions probe the understanding of an “original” versus a “copy” at a time when painters routinely produced multiple versions of a work; the meaning of “by the master’s hand” when paintings were often produced with the help of assistants; and the significance of style when artists intentionally varied theirs depending on the subject matter or the audience.