Giovanni Morelli: Art historian as a Connoiseur of the (paint) Human Body

Abstract

This study introduces the Italian politician and connoisseur Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891) and his method, as an attempt to provide, in analogy to sciences of nature, a rigorous basis for art connoisseurship.

Keywords

• Giovanni
• Morelli:
• Art
• historian
• Connoiseur
• the
• (paint)
• Human
• Body