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Connoisseurship   Listen
noun
Connoisseurship  n.  State of being a connoisseur.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Connoisseurship" Quotes from Famous Books



... failure, one of the most complete shipwrecks of illusions that the glazed hall of the Hotel Bullion has ever seen. Stung to the quick, furious with rage at this blow, which not only involved pecuniary loss and a serious inroad upon his little fortune, but was also a direct denial of his claims to connoisseurship, a slap at his knowledge of art delivered upon the cheek of his Raphaels, Monsieur de Varandeuil informed his daughter that they were too poor to remain in Paris and that they must go into the provinces ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

... da San Gallo, the wood-carver. The arches of Titus and Septimius Severus were restored at his expense, together with the statue of Marcus Aurelius and the horses of Monte Cavallo. But Paul showed his connoisseurship more especially in the collection of gems, medals, precious stones, and cameos, accumulating rare treasures of antiquity and costly masterpieces of Italian and Flemish gold-work in his cabinets. This patronage of contemporary art, no less than the appreciation of classical monuments, ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Connoisseurship" :   connoisseur, virtu, perceptiveness, discernment, vertu



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