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SPECIAL EDITIONS | Some Salvator Mundi Resources
Some Salvator Mundi Resources

In recent years I have laid focus on four thematic platforms: Salvator Mundi studies, Picasso studies (studies on Picasso in 1956),
studies on the iconography of sustainability, and on my history of the blue hour (my personal cultural history).
My Salvator Mundi studies, which I have undertaken since 2016, have resulted also in my 2021 book A New Salvator Mundi History (published online here on this site).
All my contributions to this particular field of Leonardo studies, including links to all the 32 chapters of my book, and also links to more recent essays and notes,
are listed here:
Some Salvator Mundi Resources

A HISTORY OF THE BLUE HOUR | A History of the Blue Hour
A History of the Blue Hour

Much more, and something much more specific than just a history of twilight: my history of the blue hour is not only a ›work in progress‹ exploration of the blue hour
in literature, film, the visual arts, and in history; it is also my very personal exploration, my personal cultural history. All contributions can be found here:
A History of the Blue Hour

PICASSO IN 1956 | Picasso in 1956
Picasso in 1956

Since 2017 I have been working on a publication on ›Picasso in 1956‹, which is now resulting in two books which I will both publish here:
my more essayistic short book on Picasso’s Chinese Summer, the summer of 1956, which brought several encounters with Chinese artists for Picasso,
and the more epic book on Picasso in the year of 1956, whose title is The Difficulty of Seeing. All my contributions to Picasso studies,
my books as well as my essayistic writing, can be found here:
Resources

THE ART HISTORY OF SUSTAINABILITY | The Art History of Sustainability
The Art History of Sustainability

I have come back to an old subject which I had been interested in since the 1990s: the history and theory of sustainability (logo by Craiyon).
And this I have combined with my art historical and literary interests. Which resulted, and further is resulting in studies on the Art History of Sustainability.
All my contributions can be found here:
The Art History of Sustainability

FURTHER MORE RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS: How Painting Survived the 1990s

FURTHER MORE RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS: James Cahill Versus Zhang Daqian

FURTHER MORE RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS: Tao Yuanming

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HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | An Album of Expertises
An Album of Expertises

Who does know that mysterious (apocryphal) Vermeer?
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SPECIAL EDITION | Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship
Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship

Das Projekt Visual Apprenticeship: Ausgangspunkt, Spielregeln, Ziele.
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FEATURE | The Blue Hour in Louis Malle
The Blue Hour in Louis Malle

A new contribution to our cultural history of the blue hour:
a blue hour of Brussels, a blue hour of 1992, as seen in Damage,
the 1992 film by Louis Malle (and personally a favorite to me).
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THE VIRTUAL PIETER BRUEGEL THEME PARK | Bruegel und Mani Matter
Der Scharfblick der Liebe

Zur Eröffnung unseres THE VIRTUAL PIETER BRUEGEL THEME PARK:
ein Blick auf die Winterlandschaft mit Eisläufern und Vogelfalle,
ein Blick auf Eisläufer und Liebende, ja ein Blick, ein programmatischer Essay
über Kennen, Kennenlernen und Lieben, kurz: über den Scharfblick der Liebe.
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MICROSTORY | Kraftort Arkadien
Kraftort Arkadien

(Picture: tate.org.uk)
Microstory oder Manifest – jedenfalls Gedanken zu Cy Twombly, zu Arcadia (1958),
und zum Kraftort Arkadien.
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EXHIBITION | Leonardo’s Pen
Leonardo’s Pen

(Picture: youtube.com)
Now opened – our online exhibition Leonardo’s Pen. A world premiere.
Since this is the first Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at all, being dedicated,
exclusively, to the stimuli that Leonardo’s writings, his notebooks and letters,
have been to 20th century writers and thinkers. To people concerned with texts.
Thinkers in technology (Bill Gates, Alan Kay, Steve Jobs and Lila Tretikov)
rank here next to 20th century poets (Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke and Gunnar
Ekelöf), and for the first time we do see how Leonardo, chiefly as a symbolical figure,
has stimulated 20th century cultural and technological history. Not by his paintbrush
in the first place, but as a writer, by being a source of inspiration as a writer,
and by his pen.
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PICTORIAL HISTORY | Pictorial History
Pictorial History

(Picture: DS)
Thematic expansion is due. Upcoming soon is a new series of snippets,
dedicated to the visual representation of history (and its critique).
From the Wild West to the Cold War and back. From the Middle Ages to whatever ages.
But we will remain contemporary modern wherever we might be (like a Parisian
may be a Parisian wherever she or he might be).
This field of ›Pictorial History‹ might be labelled under ›cultural journalism‹,
but what we do here is anti-Feuilleton, in that we are not inclined to follow
the logic of present events (pressing us to do what we are not interested to do
at all, and not feel necessary or worthwhile to do).
The critique of Pictorial History may also be named as another subdiscipline of
Visual Apprenticeship. And we will expand with that, since the Giovanni Morelli
Monograph is no longer consuming all our energies, very soon as well.
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WELCOMING NEW SNIPPETS | 2015 – a Judith Leyster Year
2015 – a Judith Leyster Year

(Picture: codart.nl)
The UNESCO has declared the year of 2015 to be the ›year of light‹.
We declare it to be a Judith Leyster year.
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THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | The Giovanni Morelli Monograph
The Giovanni Morelli Monograph

(Cover: DS; for pictures credits see the monograph)
The Giovanni Morelli Monograph does now sail with us on this website. –
Do think of it as another building on the artificial island of my homepage.
Or as the castle on that island (or as the tower of that castle).
I’d like to give some reasons here why you may want to read that monograph
that encompasses a visual biography and a workbook (a study, as it is called here).
You may want to read it, for example,

because it encompasses a visual biography of a ›thinking visual person‹,
a visual biography that draws on the visual resources available online,
and aims to render the visual education, the visual apprenticeship (as I do call it),
of a visual person. Text and image do interact and work together, and you may want
to ›log in‹ into that process of visual education, perhaps asking: what have I learned
to see; compared to what other persons (or a specific person) has learned
(or also: unlearned) to see.

Or you may want to read it

because this monograph aims at a critical highlighting of connoisseurial practices,
and this certainly more critical (but also more dedicated) than an art historical tradition
has generally shown as to the connoisseurial practices of Giovanni Morelli,
one of the foundational figures of more reflected, rational, or scientific connoisseurship;
and you may want to think about what scientific connoisseurship was meant to be;
what it may have become; and what it may become in the future. The Giovanni Morelli Study
is also meant as a platform to develop; perhaps in terms of further additions, that is:
of resources to that platform; or also in terms of feedback and further stimulation of discussion
(a feedback section has also been established).

Or you may want to read it simply for the (hopefully) pleasure of an intellectual adventure.
That leads one into the world of an, as I chose to say, all-receptive human being, that is:
into the world of literature as well as art connoisseurship, into the world of the natural sciences
and the humanities, into times of war and revolution, into the world of real politics
(also in connoisseurship), but also into real and imaginary landscapes, that is: into free nature.

Please do think of the whole endeavor as an experiment in more than one sense
(since it is also about a questioning how an art book may look like in the future).
I have not in mind to publish this book in print. But myself I am going to follow further some
of the directions sketched out above. As the 200th birthday of Giovanni Morelli is upcoming
(on 25 February 2016), but also beyond that date (revision, meant to improve that monograph will
occur permanently; after February of 2015 I will also document major revisions, to make such revisions
transparent, if such may occur).

I wish that it may be a pleasant reading and studying. Please do enjoy the Giovanni Morelli Monograph!
Dietrich Seybold, 23 August 2015
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ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP | Amari Szi Amari
Amari Szi Amari

(Picture: artechock.de)
From the shores of the Bosporus we embark to Eastern Europe.
With the ›gipsy‹ tune Amari Szi Amari (known also
from the 2005 film Everything Is Illuminated).
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REVIEW | Reviewing the Monocle Guide to Better Living
Reviewing the Monocle Guide to Better Living

(Picture: youtube.com)
A Frank Bascombe short story (as well as kind of a review).
But why not thinking about new forms of reviews? Which is why we do here
(and it certainly is sort of a kind review).
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SPECIAL EDITION (BIRTHDAY EDITION) | Cecom
Cecom

(Picture: youtube.com)
A birthday present to our site (since 23 July 2015 is the first birthday of Microstory of Art):
a transcription of Cecom by the Turkish Psychedelic band Baba Zula,
as seen in the 2005 film Crossing the Bridge, and as played on a boat on the Bosporus,
near the shores of Istanbul, and into the blue hour of Istanbul.
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SPECIAL EDITION | Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz – reenacted
Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz – reenacted

(Picture: DS)
Historie nachgespielt: Der Basler Kulturhistoriker Jacob Burckhardt gibt uns
unerhörte Ratschläge mit auf den Weg.
In einer Begegnung mit dem Kunsthistoriker Heinrich Wölfflin.
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MICROSTORIES | Nino Rota
Transcription of the Andante cantabile from Il Gattopardo
(Love theme from Il Gattopardo)

(Picture: avsforum.com)
Proud to announce a very special Microstory:
the transcription of the famous love theme from the movie Il Gattopardo,
only available here and nowhere else. And with it we honor, again, composer Nino Rota.
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HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | How to Tell Titian from Giorgione
How to Tell Titian from Giorgione
On how Giovanni Morelli attempted to tell Titian from Giorgione,
and about a couple of other, more relevant things. Read more

HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | A Raphael Expertise
A Raphael Expertise
A new ›accession‹ to our Virtual Museum of Art Expertise:
a Raphael expertise by Raphael scholar Jürg Meyer zur Capellen
concerning the Portrait of Pope Julius II owned by the Städel. Read more

MICROSTORIES | The Creation
The Creation Thought as Oeuvre Catalogue

(Picture: DS, after Genesis by Sebastiăo Salgado)
The eleventh Microstory is dedicated to scholar/critic George Steiner,
to the artists Werner Herzog and Sebastiăo Salgado, and to the Book of Job. Read more

NEW ON THIS SITE | THE LEONARDO DA VINCI ARCHIPELAGO
THE LEONARDO DA VINCI ARCHIPELAGO
With an exhibition space on the newly constructed PROPELLER ISLAND
and the VIRTUAL LEONARDO DA VINCI RESEARCH INSTITUTE, based on that island
(including an upcoming ARCHIVE to all Leonardiana on this site). Read more

FEATURES | The Blue Hour Continued
The Blue Hour Continued

(Picture: DS)
With a documentation dedicated to the cultural history of the Blue Hour
in 19th century painting and poetry. Read more

FEATURES | Leonardo da Vinci and Switzerland
Leonardo da Vinci and Switzerland
A brand new documentation that only can be read here
and on Leonardo da Vinci und die Schweiz, that is Leonardo da Vinci and Switzerland Read more

HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | Test Cases In Connoisseurship
Test Cases In Connoisseurship

Some general remarks on test cases in the history of connoisseurship,
and some more specific remarks on a recent major controversy in Chinese art history,
that is some remarks on Riverbank Read more

HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | A Leonardesque Ambassador
A Leonardesque Ambassador

My documentation on the Louvre’s so-called La Belle Ferronničre,
named here, due to its going to be exhibited in the Louvre Abu Dhabi,
A Leonardesque Ambassador Read more

TODAY PORTRAIT | Today Portraits III: Back to Basic Economic Data
Today Portraits III: Back to Basic Economic Data
A short glance at an interesting contemporary person, idea, phenomena or motif
I do call a Today Portrait. Read more

CONNOISSEURSHIP AND CRIME FICTION | Connoisseurship and Crime Fiction
Connoisseurship and Crime Fiction
Connoisseurship and Crime Fiction is an upcoming new series. Read more

DOCUMENTS | DOCUMENTS
Giovanni Morelli and the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel Madonna
›Giovanni Morelli and the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel Madonna‹ is a recently added document. Read more

WEATHER:

(Picture: DS)

NEW SERIES FORTHCOMING: Visual Apprenticeship

Now Completed:
HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION | Visual History of Connoisseurship
Visual History of Connoisseurship
As a preview to the Microstory of Art Visual History of Connoisseurship, that decidedly takes a cosmopolitan point of view, we are offering here a stroll through the history of connoisseurship from the 13th to the 20th century (with a 27th century appendix). Read more

Especially Recommended:
SPECIAL EDITION | Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz – reenacted
Begegnung auf dem Münsterplatz – reenacted
Historie nachgespielt: Der Basler Kulturhistoriker Jacob Burckhardt gibt uns
unerhörte Ratschläge mit auf den Weg.
In einer Begegnung mit dem Kunsthistoriker Heinrich Wölfflin.
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INDEX; PINBOARD; MICROSTORIES; FEATURES; SPECIAL EDITIONS; HISTORY AND THEORY OF ATTRIBUTION; ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP; SEARCH

Also Recommended:
MICROSTORY | Dedicated to Siegfried Kracauer
Some Minor Thoughts on Microhistory
Along with:
»Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail«. A Supplement Read more

Edited by Dietrich Seybold. Contact me via: D.Seybold@bluewin.ch

All pictures on this website are public domain, if not indicated otherwise by a picture credit giving author or source. Please keep in mind that photographs or graphics by authors named (and their picture stemming from Wikipedia) may only be re-distributed according to the licences granted by the named authors on Wikipedia. Sidebar: picture from AllExperts (still from Martin Scorsese’s 1993 movie The Age of Innocence; DoP: Michael Ballhaus); Giovanni Morelli pictures: for credits see here; Donna Laura Minghetti portrait (also used in book cover): for credit see here; book cover (Jean Paul Richter biography): amazon.com; Microstories header picture (also in sidebar), signpost picture (sidebar): DS; Microstory of Art header bar: for picture credits of non public domain pictures see the ›Microstory‹ on Sunshine and the feature Two Museum’s Men.

AN ASSORTMENT OF ESSAYS AS TO THE FOCAL POINT ART:

SPECIAL EDITIONS | The Experimental Cicerone
The Experimental Cicerone

Here we think about how to visualize the Cicerone by Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt. Read more

FEATURES | Ende Pintrix or The City in Flames
Ende Pintrix or The City in Flames

What was it like to be a woman painter in the 10th century and in northern Spain? Read more

FEATURES | Titian, Leonardo and the Blue Hour
Titian, Leonardo and the Blue Hour

Inspired by a German writer we ask: Is there a history of the ›blue hour‹? Read more

SPECIAL EDITIONS | The Covered Bridge or Turner and Ruskin at Rheinfelden
The Covered Bridge or Turner and Ruskin at Rheinfelden

What did William Turner and John Ruskin see when visiting the city of Rheinfelden and its bridge? Read more

MICROSTORIES | A Landscape Piece or Looking at Brueghel with Serra
A Landscape Piece or Looking at Brueghel with Serra

Why did Richard Serra dedicate his landscape piece at Riehen Wenkenpark to Martin Schwander and Pieter Brueghel? Read more

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INDEX

EDITORIAL
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/EDITORIAL)

OP-ED: HOW ELITIST IS CONNOISSEURSHIP?
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/HowElitistIsConnoisseurship)

VISUAL APPRENTICESHIP
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/VisualApprenticeship)

COLLECTING WAYS OF LOOKING AT ART
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/CollectingWaysOfLookingAtArt)

CONNOISSEURSHIP, CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMERISM
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ConnoisseurshipAndConsumerism)

THE DIGITAL LERMOLIEFF
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TheDigitalLermolieff)

WOMEN AND THE CULTURE OF CONNOISSEURSHIP
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/WomenAndTheCultureOfConnoisseurship)

CONNOISSEURSHIP AND CRIME FICTION
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ConnoisseurshipAndCrimeFiction)

TODAY PAINTING
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TodayPainting)

TODAY PORTRAIT
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TodayPortrait)

MORE TODAY PORTRAITS
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MoreTodayPortraits)

TODAY PORTRAITS III: BACK TO BASIC ECONOMIC DATA
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TodayPortraitsIIIBackToBasicEconomicData)

LEMMATA
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/LEMMATA)

GLOSSARY
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/GLOSSARY)

PINBOARD
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/PINBOARD)

MICROSTORIES - SUMMER OF 2014
First Edition: dedicated to Richard Serra
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/RichardSerra)
Third Edition: dedicated to Martin Scorsese
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MartinScorsese)

FALL OF 2014
Fourth Edition: dedicated to Claude Simon
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ClaudeSimon)
Fifth Edition: dedicated to Per Kirkeby
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/PerKirkeby)
Sixth Edition: dedicated to Sunshine
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/Sunshine)

WINTER OF 2014/2015
Seventh Edition: dedicated to Raqib Shaw
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/RaqibShaw)
Eight Edition: dedicated to Werner Herzog
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/WernerHerzog)
Ninth Edition: dedicated to John Baldessari
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/JohnBaldessari)

SPRING OF 2015
Tenth Edition: dedicated to Siegfried Kracauer
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/SiegfriedKracauer)
Eleventh Edition: dedicated to George Steiner
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TheCreation)
Twelfth Edition: dedicated to Anthony van Dyck
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TheSecretsOfTheCourt)

SUMMER OF 2015
Thirteenth Edition: dedicated to Marcel Duchamp
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MarcelDuchamp)
Fourteenth Edition: dedicated to Nino Rota
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/NinoRota)
Fifteenth Edition: dedicated to
Heinrich Wölfflin and Virginia Woolf
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/W%f6lfflinAndWoolf)

FALL OF 2015
Sixteenth Edition: dedicated to Hansjörg Schneider
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/HansjörgSchneider)
Seventeenth Edition: dedicated to Cy Twombly
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/KraftortArkadien)

FALL OF 2016
Eighteenth Edition: dedicated to Visual Biography
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/VisualBiography)

WINTER OF 2016/2017
Nineteenth Edition: dedicated to Schlaraffenleben
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/Schlaraffenleben)
Twentieth Edition: dedicated to
Die Geisteswissenschaften (The Humanities)
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/DieGeisteswissenschaften)

ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONNOISSEURSHIP
The Professor And His One Student or
Nietzsche On Connoisseurship
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TheProfessorAndHisOneStudent)
Art, Acuity and Lepidopterology
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ArtAcuityAndLepidopterology)
From Master to Maestro or Art Connoisseurship’s Journey into the Lands of Music, Sounds and Silences
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/FromMasterToMaestro)
Johnny’s Playing the Video Game
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/JohnnySPlayingTheVideoGame)
Amari Szi Amari
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/AmariSziAmari)
Ethnography of the Expertise
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/EthnographyOfTheExpertise)

REVIEWS
Laienherrschaft
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/Laienherrschaft)
Kunst, die Geschichte schreiben wird
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/KunstDieGeschichteSchreibenWird)
Vladimir Nabokov. Das Leben erfinden
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/VladimirNabokov)
Reviewing the Monocle Guide to Better Living
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ReviewingTheMonocleGuideToBetterLiving)

DOCUMENTS
Giovanni Morelli and the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel Madonna
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MicrostoryOfArtDOCUMENTS)
Brueghel/Tarkovsky Zero Gravity
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MicrostoryOfArtDOCUMENTS)
The Overhead Projector – a Memento Mori (2014)
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MicrostoryOfArtDOCUMENTS)
Bonaventura Genelli and Photography (1839)
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MicrostoryOfArtDOCUMENTS)

STUDY COLLECTION
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/MicrostoryOfArtSTUDYCOLLECTION)
with:
The Carl Adolph Mende Study
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/TheCarlAdolphMendeStudy)

Extra
A Brief Guide to Jean Paul Richter’s
The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci
(Read more: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/ABriefGuideToJeanPaulRichterSTheLiteraryWorksOfLeonardoDaVinci)

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