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107-053 Connoisseurship and Landscape | |
Note | Formerly available as 111-411. Students who have completed 111-411 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 3rd and 4th year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Assoc Prof David Marshall |
Prerequisites | Usually 37.5 points of Art History at second/third year, see Prerequisites |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2.5-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject develops skills in practical connoisseurship, which is the task of discriminating between works of art primarily by means of their visual properties. The primary emphasis of the subject is therefore visual. Seminars are mainly devoted to discussing particular problem areas in the connoisseurship of Italian landscape painting and drawing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Carracci, Claude Lorrain, Salvator Rosa, Nicolas Poussin, Gaspard Dughet, Elsheimer, Marco Ricci etc.). Also addressed are the nature and use of the primary sources, especially artists' biographies and inventories of collections. An important component of the subject involves researching and attributing unseen works. |
Assessment | Two unseen attribution projects totalling 3500 words, and a 1.5-hour visual test equivalent to 1500 words. |
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