Giovanni Morelli and his friend Giorgione: connoisseurship, science and irony
Giovanni Morelli (1816–1891), the nineteenth–century connoisseur, is famous as the inventor of scientific connoisseurship. This reputation was validated in 1880 by his attribution of the Sleeping Venus (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) to the sixteenth–century Venetian painter Giorgione. In 1890, when attri...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/uglow.pdf |