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Project

The Training of Talent? Selection and Assessment Procedures at the Academies of Fine Arts in Antwerp and The Hague, 1650-1850.

Up until now, scholarly debates on artistic quality and talent in the early modern period too often revolve around art theoretical writings, rather than their practical applications. This interdisciplinary research project will analyze the cultural construction of these concepts at Academies of Fine Arts, institutions aimed at training talented artists and raising the quality level of the art production. The central research question is: how did the Academies of Fine Arts shape the dynamic concepts of artistic 'quality' and 'talent' in their selection, training and assessment procedures of students during the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries?
Date:1 Oct 2010 →  3 Feb 2013
Keywords:ART HISTORY, MODERN HISTORY, CULTURAL HISTORY
Disciplines:Economic history, History, Art studies and sciences