The Giovanni Morelli Monograph

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH PART I: Visual Apprenticeship: The Giovanni Morelli Visual Biography (Picture: verdi.passioneperlacultura.it: Paul Tétar van Elven: Inaugurazione del Parlamento a Palazzo Madama il 2 aprile 1860)

What is a Visual Biography supposed to be? What is it supposed to be here? And what it is supposed to look like?

The Visual Biography of Giovanni Morelli is meant to be a biography that focusses on the biography of someone’s eye, the eye of a connoisseur that his contemporaries admired also for his expertise in human nature and as a man of the world. We keep three things in focus: in that we reconstruct the biography of Giovanni Morelli we do firstly nothing else than any biography would do: to reconstruct the events, the impulses, the contradictions, the sceneries of one’s life. But we focus on the visual experiences and on what we do call Visual Apprenticeship. And to do this we do not just assemble visual materials in the first place.
We do – secondly – listen in into the correspondences that Giovanni Morelli had with his most important mentors, his friends, and later with his pupils: about visual things, about Visual Apprenticeship. And we reconstruct, in that we ›walk‹ with Giovanni Morelli, his friends, and also with his opponents through this Visual Biography of his, the biography of his eye.
And this – thirdly – is where we start to work also with visual materials. In hearing the discussions, and in looking at the looking of these men, and in comparing our looking with how they looked. On things that we do look at here as well, because we attempt to visualize as much and as best as we can. With the aim to compare, to learn how to look, but not only to compare and to learn. But also to take our inspirations here for our going our own way. In that, for example, we try to look differently. Or at other things. And not even necessarily at visual things. But for example also at the writing of biography. Or Visual Biography.

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH PART I:

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship I
Visual Apprenticeship I

Visual Apprenticeship I Read more

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Interlude I
Interlude I: Threads Intertwining or:
The Lombardic Silk Industry in Crisis and the Birth of Scientific Connoisseurship

Interlude I: Threads Intertwining or: The Lombardic Silk Industry in Crisis and the Birth of Scientific Connoisseurship Read more

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship II
Visual Apprenticeship II

Visual Apprenticeship II Read more

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Interlude II
Interlude II: Dall’Ermo Turns Lermolieff or: Comedy, Comical Sense and Connoisseurship

Interlude II: Dall’Ermo Turns Lermolieff or: Comedy, Comical Sense and Connoisseurship Read more

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship III
Visual Apprenticeship III

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Visual Apprenticeship III Read more

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THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | HOME

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | Spending a September with Morelli at Lake Como

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | A Biographical Sketch

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | The Giovanni Morelli Visual Biography

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | Connoisseurial Practices: The Giovanni Morelli Study

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | The Giovanni Morelli Bibliography Raisonné

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI MONOGRAPH | General Bibliography

The Giovanni Morelli Visual Biography

What is a Visual Biography supposed to be? What is it supposed to be here? And what it is supposed to look like?

The Visual Biography of Giovanni Morelli is meant to be a biography that focusses on the biography of someone’s eye, the eye of a connoisseur that his contemporaries admired also for his expertise in human nature and as a man of the world. We keep three things in focus: in that we reconstruct the biography of Giovanni Morelli we do firstly nothing else than any biography would do: to reconstruct the events, the impulses, the contradictions, the sceneries of one’s life. But we focus on the visual experiences and on what we do call Visual Apprenticeship. And to do this we do not just assemble visual materials in the first place.
We do – secondly – listen in into the correspondences that Giovanni Morelli had with his most important mentors, his friends, and later with his pupils: about visual things, about Visual Apprenticeship. And we reconstruct, in that we ›walk‹ with Giovanni Morelli, his friends, and also with his opponents through this Visual Biography of his, the biography of his eye.
And this – thirdly – is where we start to work also with visual materials. In hearing the discussions, and in looking at the looking of these men, and in comparing our looking with how they looked. On things that we do look at here as well, because we attempt to visualize as much and as best as we can. With the aim to compare, to learn how to look, but not only to compare and to learn. But also to take our inspirations here for our going our own way. In that, for example, we try to look differently. Or at other things. And not even necessarily at visual things. But for example also at the writing of biography. Or Visual Biography.

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY:

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship I

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Interlude I

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship II

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Interlude II

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI VISUAL BIOGRAPHY | Visual Apprenticeship III

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY:

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY | Cabinet I: Introduction

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY | Cabinet II: Questions and Answers

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY | Cabinet III: Expertises by Morelli

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY | Cabinet IV: Mouse Mutants and Disney Cartoons

THE GIOVANNI MORELLI STUDY | Cabinet V: Digital Lermolieff

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