Connoisseurship

Christina M. Anderson is the Daphne Jackson Principal Research Fellow in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London. She is the author of The Flemish Merchant of Venice: Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection. Peter Stewart is Professor of Ancient Art and Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for the Beazley Archive. His publications include Statues in Roman Society, The Social History of Roman Art, and A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House.

1. Introduction, Peter Stewart and Christina M. Anderson

Between science and art

2. Beazley, Daubert, and the Burden of Proof, Peter Stewart
3. The Scientific Approach to Collecting: Private Coin Collections in Qing Dynasty China, Lyce Jankowski
4. Connoisseurs, Scientists and the Mineral Kingdom, Monica Price and Mike Rumsey

Professionals, amateurs, and the market

5. Elite and Popular Connoisseurship at the Louvre c. 1848-1870, Tom Stammers
6. Wilhelm von Bode's Technical Art History: The 1909-1912 Investigation of the Bust of Flora Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Matthew Hayes

Cultural connoisseurship and the senses

7. "The Stock of a Connoisseur?": The Development and Commercialization of Wine Connoisseurship in the Long Nineteenth Century, Graham Harding
8. Connoisseur Consumer and Specialty Coffee, Ronan Torres Quintão
9. On Touching: Connoisseurship of Literati Walnuts in Beijing, I-Yi Hsieh

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