Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rôle or part of a connoisseur; critical judgment in matters of art.
- noun Skill as a connoisseur; proficiency as an art critic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being a connoisseur.
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- noun the state of being a
connoisseur
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- noun love of or taste for fine objects of art
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Examples
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Whether this proves Borrow's susceptibility to female charm I cannot say, but it seems to me rather to prove a sort of connoisseurship, which is not the same thing.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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The second part of this section will introduce the idea of connoisseurship as a means of identifying works from the past as masterpieces.
Art Knowledge News 2008
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Accompanying me through the exhibition, Mr. Lahikainen observes: "Beyond understanding connoisseurship, which is part of a curator's job, this project offered the opportunity to learn your guy so well that you learn his spirit and the thinking that guided his hand.
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So for example, the general skill Carouse has as its subskills "connoisseurship", gamble, and gather information.
theRPGSite 2008
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We in this way wish to honor Nik Douglas 'life's work of dedication to the Dharma, interdisciplinary scholarship and research, avid connoisseurship and arduous efforts to collect an extraordinary body of work documenting this central vein of the artistic emanation body.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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We in this way wish to honor Nik Douglas 'life's work of dedication to the Dharma, interdisciplinary scholarship and research, avid connoisseurship and arduous efforts to collect an extraordinary body of work documenting this central vein of the artistic emanation body.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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No wonder so many business big-shots go for Hirst: his work is both simple-minded and sensationalist, just the ticket for newbie collectors who are, to put it mildly, connoisseurship-challenged and resonance-free.
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We in this way wish to honor Nik Douglas 'life's work of dedication to the Dharma, interdisciplinary scholarship and research, avid connoisseurship and arduous efforts to collect an extraordinary body of work documenting this central vein of the artistic emanation body.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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For Evan Snyderman of R 20th Century, a leading New York gallery, Design Miami/Basel is one of the few fairs in the world committed to the level of presentation and connoisseurship our gallery strives to achieve.
Maturing Gracefully Emma Crichton-Miller 2011
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We in this way wish to honor Nik Douglas 'life's work of dedication to the Dharma, interdisciplinary scholarship and research, avid connoisseurship and arduous efforts to collect an extraordinary body of work documenting this central vein of the artistic emanation body.
Mike Ragogna: The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana : A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman Mike Ragogna 2010
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