Terms of the Day for August 26

• Attribution – in art history, the explicit or formal acknowledgment of authorship to a singular artist.
• Provenance – the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
• Connoisseur – a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts or an expert judge in matters of taste.   In the fine arts, a connoisseur is considered an in-depth expert on a particular artist’s life and work, and can therefore make attributions.