Description
| Product ID: | 9780367334079 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Visual Culture in Early Modernity |
| Title: | Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts |
| Authors: | Author: Christine Goettler, Sven Dupre |
| Page Count: | 342 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Historiography, European history, History, History of science, Historiography, European history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of science, Europe |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This volume reframes recent scholarship on 'cultures of knowledge and discernment' in the early modern period. The collection is innovative in its focus on investigating types of knowledge linked to the 'science' (scientia) of art, to artistic expertise and connoisseurship, and 'secrets of art and nature.' In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and became explicitly connected with a kind of knowledge available only to experts in the respective fields. With contributions by historians of art and historians of science, and with geographic coverage focusing on the Low Countries and their multiple connections to different parts of the world, this volume reframes recent scholarship on what the editors term ’cultures of knowledge and discernment’ in the early modern period. The collection is innovative in its focus on investigating types of knowledge linked to what was then called the ’science’ (scientia) of art, to artistic expertise and connoisseurship, and to ’secrets of art and nature.’ |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-18 |
