Millard Meiss, American art history, and conservation : from connoisseurship to iconology and Kulturgeschichte.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations and Illustration Credits -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Cited Works by Millard Meiss -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Two Generations of American Connoisseurs -- Richard Offner's Scientific Connoisseurship -- The Two Cartographers -- The Foundations for a Science of Connoisseurship -- A Short History of Meiss's Attributions -- The First Thorny Problems of Ugolino Lorenzetti and Francesco Traini -- 'Scusi, ma sempre Duccio': The Case of the Frick Flagellation -- 'The World Clearly Wants Giotto to Be the Author': The Assisi Debate -- The Sharp Eye of a Connoisseur and the Acute Mind of a Scientist -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Far Side of the Moon: Erwin Panofsky's Iconology -- Panofsky Arrives in the United States -- Towards an American-style Iconology -- A Casual but Illuminating Conversation -- The 'Synthronismus' -- 'Von Haus zu Haus' -- The Extent of His Influence, the Weight of His Authority and the Solidity of His Reign -- Panofskyan Pathways -- Arnolfini's Hat -- Iconology of Light -- 'Oology May Qualify as a Branch of Iconology' -- Meissian Slumber -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Kulturgeschichte or Social History of Art? -- Reviewing Antal -- The 'Pest Book' and Post-war Scholarship -- 'One of the Most Original and Sound Works in the History of Art' -- The Historian's View: Yves Renouard, Hans Baron and Roberto S. Lopez -- The Habitus Does Not Make the Art Bishop: Berenson and Panofsky -- 'A Book That Ought to Have Been Known in Italy Not Only by Scholars Alone': The Complications of a Translation -- 'The Holes in the Meissian Model Have Grown Larger with Each Passing Year' -- The History of Culture after the Black Death -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Technical Study of Art.

Harvard's Art Laboratory -- 'America as Guardian of the World's Art Treasures': The American Committee for the Restoration of Italian Monuments -- ACRIM's Projects of Restoration -- The Involvement of Bernard Berenson -- Meiss's Studies on Mural Paintings -- The Trigger-Happy Detachment of Frescoes -- The Giornate in Assisi with Leonetto Tintori -- A Book on the History of Art Techniques -- American Aid after the Flood -- 'An Acute Case of CRIAmania' -- Ugo Procacci, Tintori's Brigata and Italian 'Stubborn Rivalries' -- From The Great Age of Fresco to Firenze Restaura -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Italian Meiss-Fortunes -- A Connoisseur's Early Impressions of Italy -- An American Panofsky and a Candid Iconologist -- Meiss's Associates -- Longhi and Salmi -- The Soprintendenti's Circle -- A True Gentleman from the 19th Century -- The Champion of Iconology and History of Culture, or Our Man in Italy -- When Princeton Mostly Spoke Italian -- A Three-Faced Man -- Bibliography -- Index.