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• The Giovanni Morelli Monograph

• Spending a September with Morelli at Lake Como
• A Biographical Sketch
• Visual Apprenticeship: The Giovanni Morelli Visual Biography
  • Visual Apprenticeship I
  • Interlude I
  • Visual Apprenticeship II
  • Interlude II
  • Visual Apprenticeship III
• Connoisseurial Practices: The Giovanni Morelli Study
  • Cabinet I
  • Cabinet II
  • Cabinet III
  • Cabinet IV
  • Cabinet V
• The Giovanni Morelli Bibliography Raisonné
• General Bibliography

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• Op-ed✎
• >EDITORIAL

• The Consultant on the Art of Living
• Today Painting
• Today Portrait
• More Today Portraits
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• >LEMMATA
• >GLOSSARY

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• >PINBOARD

• >MICROSTORIES
  • Richard Serra
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Claude Simon
  • Sunshine
  • Werner Herzog
  • The Creation
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Nino Rota
  • Wölfflin and Woolf
  • Hansjörg Schneider
  • Kraftort Arkadien
  • Visual Biography
  • Schlaraffenleben
  • Die Geisteswissenschaften
  • The Voyeur
  • Buzzword Sustainability
  • Paul Verlaine
  • Tao Yuanming
  • New Beginning
  • Seneca
  • Still Lifes
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • The Art History of Sustainability
  • Wang Wei
  • Solarpunk
  • Historians of Light
  • Lepanto
  • Renaturalization
  • Plates
  • Snow in Provence
  • Learning to See
  • Picasso Dictionaries
  • Peach Blossom Spring
  • Picasso Tourism
  • Tipping Points
  • Sviatoslav Richter
  • Weather Reports
  • Treasure Hunt
  • Another Snowscape in Picasso
  • Picasso in 2023
  • Dragon Veins
  • The Gloomy Day
  • The Art of the Pentimento
  • Reforestation
  • The Status of Painting
  • Emergency Supply
  • Punctuality
  • Watching Traffic
  • Zhong Kui
  • How Painting Survived the 1990s
  • Confirmation Bias
  • Sustainability and Luxury
  • Garage Bands
  • Picasso and Artificial Intelligence
  • Eyes of Tomorrow
  • Picasso in 2023 2
  • Gluing Oneself to Something
  • Suburbia
  • Bamboo
  • Sustainability and Carpe Diem 1
  • Interviews with Bruegel
  • Sustainability and Carpe Diem 2
  • Coffee & Sugar
  • Bamboo 2
  • Picasso in 2023 3
  • Sustainability and Carpe Diem 3
  • Cherry Orchard
  • Old Magazines
  • Chance
  • Nick Drake
  • Harlequin
  • The Smartphone & the Art Book
  • Atlas Syndrome
  • The Kitchen
  • Atlas Syndrome 2
  • Consideration
  • Tori Amos
  • School
  • Orchard Auctioning Day
  • The Hundred Years’ War
  • Sócrates
  • Chameleon
  • Nefertiti Bust
  • Picasso as a Computer
  • Sunflowers
  • Philemon & Baucis
  • Ode to the Radio
  • Childhood
  • Wimmelbild
  • Restitution
  • Nick Drake 2
  • Wishful Thinking
  • Sundays
  • The Independent Scholar
  • September
  • The Fisherman by Pirosmani
  • Microadventure
  • Sociology
  • Salvator Mundi
  • Chillon
  • Appassionata
  • Amber
  • Homer
  • Berlin
  • Planet Walk
  • Improvisation
  • Seeing Picasso
  • These Nice Kids
  • Robber
  • The One
  • The Sea Turtle
  • Zoo
  • Through the Hush
  • Wunderkammer
  • I Do Not Seek, I Find
  • Shopping Mall
  • Food Hamper
  • The Secretary
  • This Gate
  • Nor Rainy Day
  • House on a Hill
  • Beautiful Island
  • Second-hand Bookstore
  • Flat
  • Slap in the Face
  • Serra, Wenkenpark
  • Apologies
  • The Bells
  • Nordmann Fir
  • Picasso Wanting To Be Poor
  • Picasso, Pirosmani
  • A Brief History of Sculpture
  • 24 Sunsets
  • Rusty Phoenix
  • Glove
  • Wintry Stanza
  • A Song
  • Like A Beatle
  • Catching An Orange
  • Solar Bees
  • Permaculture
• >FEATURES
  • Van Gogh On Connoisseurship
  • Two Museum’s Men
  • Ende Pintrix and the City in Flames
  • Titian, Leonardo and the Blue Hour
  • The Man with the Golden Helmet: a documentation
  • Un Jury d’admission à l’expertise
  • Learning to See in Hitler’s Munich
  • Leonardo da Vinci and Switzerland
  • The Blue Hour Continued
  • The Blue Hour in Louis Malle
  • Kafka in the Blue Hour
  • Blue Matisse
  • Blue Hours of Hamburg and LA
  • A Brief History of the Cranberry
  • The Other Liberale in the House
  • The Blue Hour in Raphael
  • Who Did Invent the Blue Hour?
  • Monet on Sustainability
  • Velázquez and Sustainability
  • The Blue Hour in Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Van Gogh on Sustainability
  • The Blue Hour in Marcel Proust
  • Picasso and Sustainability
  • The Contemporary Blue Hour
  • The Blue Hour in 1492
  • The Blue Hour in Hopper and Rothko
  • Hopper and Sustainability
  • The Blue Hour in Ecotopia
  • The Hour Blue in Joan Mitchell
  • Explaining the Twilight
  • The Twilight of Thaw
  • The Blue Hour in Pierre Bonnard
  • Explaining the Twilight 2
  • Picasso on Stalin
  • Rubens on Sustainability
  • The Salvator Mundi in Bruegel and Rubens
  • The Blue Hour in Leonardo da Vinci and Poussin
  • The Blue Hour in Rimbaud
  • Faking the Dawn
  • Frost and Thaw in Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Picasso, Stalin, Beria
  • Picasso, Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
  • Shostakovich on Picasso
  • Hélène Parmelin in 1956
  • Historians of Picasso Blue
  • Picasso Travelling to Moscow 1
  • The Blue Hour in Caravaggio
  • Picasso Travelling to Moscow 2
  • Picasso, the Knife Game and the Unsettling in Art
  • Some Notes on Leonardo da Vinci and Slavery
  • Picasso Moving to the Swiss Goldcoast
  • The Blue Hour in Camus
  • The Blue Hour in Symbolism and Surrealism
  • Caspar David Friedrich in His Element
  • Exhibiting the Northern Light
  • Caspar David Friedrich in His Element 2
  • Robert Schumann and the History of the Nocturne
  • The Blue Hour in Robert Schumann
  • Caspar David Friedrich and Sustainability
  • The Twilight of Thaw 2
  • Multicultural Twilight
  • The Blue Hour in Anton Chekhov
  • The Blue Hour in Medieval Art
  • Twilight Photography
  • The Blue Hour in Bob Dylan
  • Iconography of Optimism
• >SPECIAL EDITIONS
  • Visions of Cosmopolis
  • Mona Lisa Landscapes
  • Turner and Ruskin at Rheinfelden
  • Painters On TV & On TV
  • Spazzacamini in Art
  • A Last Glance at Le Jardin de Daubigny
  • The Experimental Cicerone
  • A Dictionary of Imaginary Art Historical Works
  • Iconography of Blogging
  • Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz
  • Cecom
  • Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship
  • Those Who See More
  • A Fox on Seeing with the Heart
  • Sammlung Werner Weisbach
  • Daubigny Revisited
  • Some Salvator Mundi Microstories
  • Some Salvator Mundi Afterthougths
  • Some Salvator Mundi Variations
  • Some Salvator Mundi Revisions
  • A Salvator Mundi Questionnaire
  • A Salvator Mundi Puzzle
  • Unknown Melzi
  • Francis I and the Crown of Charlemagne
  • From Amboise to Fontainebleau
  • Drones Above Chambord
  • Looking Back At Conques
  • Flaubert At Fontainebleau
  • Images of Imperial Ideology
  • The Chronicles of Santa Maria delle Grazie
  • Seeing Right Through Someone
  • Melzi the Secretary
  • Eying Glass
  • A Foil to the Mona Lisa
  • A Renaissance of the Cartoon
  • Sketching a Family Tree
  • Venetian Variations
  • A Brief History of Digital Restoring
  • A Consortium of Painters
  • Leonardeschi and Landscape
  • A Christ in Profile
  • Learning to See in Spanish Milan
  • A History of Gestures
  • Leonardo and Josquin
  • A Renaissance of the Hybrid
  • Suida and Heydenreich
  • The Watershed
  • Three Veils
  • From Beginning to End
  • Connoisseurship of AI
  • Twilight and Enlightenment
  • The Blue Hour in Chinese Painting
  • Dusk and Dawn at La Californie
  • Iconography of Sustainability
  • The Blue Hour in Goethe and Stendhal
  • The Sky in Verlaine
  • The Blue Hour in Paul Klee
  • Iconography of Sustainability 2
  • The Blue Hour in Charles Baudelaire
  • From Bruegel to Solarpunk
  • Some Salvator Mundi Documentaries
  • Some More Salvator Mundi Monkey Business
  • The Windsor Sleeve
  • Brigitte Bardot’s Encounter with Picasso
  • Art Historians and Historians
  • A Salvator Mundi Chronicle
  • The Salvator Mundi and the French Revolution
  • The Fontainebleau Group
  • The Encounter of Harry Truman with Pablo Picasso
  • The Fontainebleau Group Continued
  • The Windsor Sleeve Continued
  • The Salvator Mundi in Early Netherlandish Painting 1
  • Some Salvator Mundi Resources
  • A New Salvator Mundi Questionnaire
  • The Woman in Picasso
  • The Yarborough Group
  • Melzi, Figino and the Mona Lisa
  • The Yarborough Group Continued
  • A Salvator Mundi Global History
  • The Salvator Mundi in Medieval Art
  • The Salvator Mundi in Medieval Art 2
  • The Salvator Mundi in Early Netherlandish Painting 2

• >HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION
  • The Mysterious »Donna Laura Minghetti-Leonardo«
  • Assorted Demons of Connoisseurship
  • Panofsky Meets Morelli
  • Discovering the Eye of Sherlock Holmes
  • Handling the Left-handed Hatchings Argument
  • Visual History of Connoisseurship
  • Alexander Perrig
  • Connoisseurship in 2666
  • What Postmodernity Has Done to Connoisseurship
  • Dividing Four Fab Hands
  • A Leonardesque Ambassador
  • Test Cases in Connoisseurship
  • A Raphael Expertise
  • How to Tell Titian from Giorgione
  • Louise Richter
  • The Unique Property in the History of Connoisseurship
  • An Expertise by Berenson
  • The Book of Expertises
  • An Album of Expertises
  • An Expertise by Friedländer
  • A Salvator Mundi Provenance
  • How to Tell Leonardo from Luini
  • An Expertise by Crowe and Cavalcaselle
  • An Expertise by Bayersdorfer
  • An Expertise by Hermann Voss
  • An Expertise by Hofstede de Groot
  • Leonardeschi Gold Rush
  • An Unknown »Vermeer«
  • An Expertise by Roberto Longhi
  • An Expertise by Federico Zeri
  • A Salvator Mundi Geography
  • A Salvator Mundi Atlas
  • The Bias of Superficiality
  • 32 Ways of Looking at a Puzzle
  • James Cahill versus Zhang Daqian
  • Five Fallacies in Attribution
  • On Why Art History Cannot Be Outsourced to Art Dealers
  • On Why Artificial Intelligence Has No Place in Connoisseurship
  • Salvator Mundi Scholarship in 2016
  • Leonardo da Vinci at the Courts
  • The Story of the Lost Axe
  • The Last Bruegel
  • A Titian Questionnaire
  • On Where and Why the Salvator Mundi Authentication Did Fail
  • The Problem of Deattribution
• >ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP
  • Ethnography of the Expertise

• >REVIEWS
• >DOCUMENTS
• >STUDY COLLECTION

  • The Carl Adolph Mende Study

• >EXTRA
  • A Brief Guide to Jean Paul Richter’s The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci

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ARCHIVE AND FURTHER PROJECTS

1) PRINT

• Backlist: Leonardo da Vinci’s Travels to the East
  • Spotlight 1: Pearl Fishers and Cannibals
  • Spotlight 2: An Icon Painter from Russia
  • Spotlight 3: Leonardo da Vinci’s Globe
  • Spotlight 4: A Vision of China
  • Spotlight 5: Leonardo da Vinci’s Europe

• Looking back: Morelli’s Apprentice: Jean Paul Richter or The Adventure of Biography
  • Spotlight 1: The Wallace Collection, King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the Desire for a Catalogue
  • Spotlight 2: Jean Paul Richter and Giorgione
  • Spotlight 3: The History of the Hertz-Mond-Collection
  • Spotlight 4: The Giambono’s Provenance
  • Spotlight 5: Life at the Cape of Circe

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2) E-PRODUCTIONS

• A New Salvator Mundi History

• The Giovanni Morelli Monograph

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• Greatest of Great Ladies or The Three Lives of Donna Laura Minghetti

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• The Book of Expertises

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FORTHCOMING:

• Picasso in 1956
  • The Difficulty of Seeing
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
  • Part IV
  • Part V
  • Picasso’s Chinese Summer
  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • Resources
  • Bibliography
  • Picasso And China

• A History of the Blue Hour

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3) VARIA

• The Leonardo da Vinci Archipelago
  • The Propeller Island
  • The Virtual Research Institute
  • The Archive
  • Bonus

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• The Virtual Pieter Bruegel Theme Park
  • Bruegel und Mani Matter
  • Real Estate in Bruegel
  • Bruegel and Serra
  • Bruegel on Sustainability
  • Salvator Mundi Iconography in Bruegel and Rubens
  • The Story of the Last Bruegel

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• History and Future of Connoisseurship
  • Three Scenes of Connoisseurship
  • Iconography of Connoisseurship
  • Views From the Nightside of Connoisseurship

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• Visual Apprenticeship
  • Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship
  • Visual Apprenticeship 2

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• Pictorial History
  • Die Kultur der Renaissance in Bildern
  • Bildgeschichte der Ökonomie
  • Art History of Sustainability

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• The Contemporary Painting Charts

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THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH

• The Giovanni Morelli Monograph
  • Spending a September with Morelli at Lake Como
  • A Biographical Sketch
  • Visual Apprenticeship: The Giovanni Morelli Visual Biography
    • Visual Apprenticeship I
    • Interlude I
    • Visual Apprenticeship II
    • Interlude II
    • Visual Apprenticeship III
  • Connoisseurial Practices: The Giovanni Morelli Study
    • Cabinet I
    • Cabinet II
    • Cabinet III
    • Cabinet IV
    • Cabinet V
  • The Giovanni Morelli Bibliography Raisonné
  • General Bibliography
  • Translations
  • Miscellaneous
  • GMMIndex
  • Feedback

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