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The article takes a closer look at the problematic relationship between Art History and connoisseurship - the latter in today's general opinion summarizing all negative and old-fashioned aspects of the discipline - in a broad historical overview (from G. Vasari to B. Berenson). The author concludes with defending a complete and organic Art History focused on the object, which allows to conjugate the...