Art and Anarchy by EDGAR WIND
Professor of the History of Art in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Trinity College
3: Critique of Connoisseurship
The modern techniques of connoisseurship, Professor Wind believes, may outlast the one-sided ideas of art on which they were originally founded. In discussing some of the virtues and weaknesses of this pursuit, Professor Wind draws particular attention to the importance of Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891), who was the first to treat connoisseurship as a rational form of enquiry.