Abstract
This chapter discusses the development of technical art history, which goes hand in hand with an increasingly scientific approach in conservation research and methodology, rapidly developing scientific analytical applications, and a growing interest in documentary sources on techniques and materials past and present. Hogarth ridicules and attacks connoisseurs and art dealers who support a trade in old masters of dubious quality and encourage a taste for 'dark pictures', thus disadvantaging contemporary British artists through a misplaced emphasis on the past. The chapter also discusses some of the key facets that constitute the field of technical art history, which aims at a thorough understanding of the physical object in terms of original intention, choice of materials and techniques, as well as the context in and for which the work was created, its meaning and its contemporary perception. Keywords:conservation; dark pictures; technical art history; William Hogarth
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