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Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes and the modernization of scientific connoisseurship

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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:51 authored by Francesco VentrellaFrancesco Ventrella
Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes, a disciple of Giovanni Morelli, participated in the critical exchanges that modernized European art history at the turn of the twentieth century. In producing the first comprehensive study of Vincenzo Foppa, Ffoulkes also underwrote important methodological innovations in the practice of connoisseurship, notably the development of a philological method that blended documentary evidence with direct visual examination. This article investigates Ffoulkes’ interest in the use and function of photographic reproductions of archival documents and her allegiance to the “historical standpoint” championed by professional journals such as Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft and Rassegna d’arte, to which she contributed. Emphasizing the boundaries that Ffoulkes was obliged to negotiate to secure a foothold within the male profession of art history, this article tracks the evolution of her research methods relative to the international network that enabled and recognized her expertise in the connoisseurship of Italian art.

Funding

Connoisseurial Intimacies: 1870-1930; G1146; LEVERHULME TRUST; ECF-2013-442

History

Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Visual Resources

ISSN

0197-3762

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Volume

33

Page range

117-139

Department affiliated with

  • Art History Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-01-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-24

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-01-20