Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138097728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 342 str.

Kristel Smentek

Opis

Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette’s career, this book examines the material practices and networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing and collecting, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues’ interpretations of graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Art history and the 18th-century connoisseur; Knowledge economies of the print trade; The making of a drawings connoisseur; The collector’s cut; Origins: of antiquarianism, aesthetics, and history; Conclusion: The Mariette sales; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Kristel Smentek is Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Architecture, MIT, USA.