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Connoisseurship relied on color to separate Genoese from Parisian black silks, tea services by Wedgwood or Meissen from those made at Sèvres, or a painting by Canaletto from one by Chardin.
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Connoisseurship on any but a micro level ( "Man, that's a great Clint Black T-shirt -- must be six colors in the silkscreen for it") is practically a dirty word these days, and I'd be surprised if the word "vulgar" is uttered pejoratively more than twice a year in the United States outside of a Tipper Gore tea party.
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Ancient Times: Aged Wines and Connoisseurship As I write, the earliest evidence we have for wine made from grapes, residues at the bottom of a pot found in western Iran, dates from around 6000 BCE.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Ancient Times: Aged Wines and Connoisseurship As I write, the earliest evidence we have for wine made from grapes, residues at the bottom of a pot found in western Iran, dates from around 6000 BCE.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Parsons offers a professional certificate program in Antiques Connoisseurship.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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The curriculum covers fine and decorative arts of America from the seventeenth century to the present, and consists of four core courses: Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, Methodology, and Style Studies and Object Connoisseurship.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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Parsons offers a professional certificate program in Antiques Connoisseurship.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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The curriculum covers fine and decorative arts of America from the seventeenth century to the present, and consists of four core courses: Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, Methodology, and Style Studies and Object Connoisseurship.
You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999
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Connoisseurship is a science and may hold within itself no element of aesthetic enjoyment.
The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911
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Connoisseurship -- which is upsetting, as perhaps you're not aware, all the old-fashioned canons of art-criticism, everything we've stupidly thought right and held dear; that he was to spend Easter in these parts, and that he should like greatly to be allowed some day to come over and make acquaintance with our things.
The Outcry Henry James 1879
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