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Joseph Archer Crowe

British journalist, diplomat and art critic (1825-1896) · Journalists · Died at 70

Sir Joseph Archer Crowe was an English journalist, consular official and art historian, whose volumes of the History of Painting in Italy, co-written with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819-1897), stand at the beginning of disciplined modern art history writing in English, being based on...

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Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George1890
Companion of the Order of the Bath1885

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Sir Joseph Archer Crowe was an English journalist, consular official and art historian, whose volumes of the History of Painting in Italy, co-written with the Italian critic Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (1819-1897), stand at the beginning of disciplined modern art history writing in English, being based on chronologies of individual artists' development and the connoisseurship of identifying artist's individual manners or "hands".

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Journalists
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Journalist
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Deceased
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Lived 1825 to 1896 · aged 70