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Item Number: 130983
Title: Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Author: Smentek, Kristel
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472438027
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 303pp., 20 color, 40 b&w illus. Summary: 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 social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories of science, publishing, collecting and display, this book shows how Mariette and his colleagues’ practices of classification and interpretation of the graphic arts gave rise to new conceptions of artistic authorship and to a history of art that transcended the biographies of individual artists. To follow Mariette’s career through the eighteenth century is to see that art was consolidated as a specialized category of intellectual inquiry-and that style emerged as its structuring analytic device-in the overlapping spaces of the collector’s cabinet, the connoisseur’s portfolio and the dealer’s shop. Contents: Introduction: art history and the 18th-century connoisseur; Knowledge economies of the 18th-century print trade; The making of a drawings connoisseur; The collector’s cut; Origins: of antiquarianism, aesthetics, and history; Conclusion: the Mariette sale. (Studies in Art Historiography)
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