Talk:Connoisseur

What does "a still vaguer man of taste" mean?

The phrase seems to refer to a less specialised person than the traditional connoisseur, at least that was my understanding of it. J.Fries 00:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Fine Arts?

Why does this article deal exclusively with art? The term is used just as often (if not more so) in relation to food, drink or music. -Adjusting 07:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, food, drink, and music are all considered an art, even war is an art.

I consider myself somewhat of a Connoisseur of quite a number of things that are WAY less boring than this definition describes. It really gives the impression that France is about as fun as a funeral or getting a speeding ticket... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.17.88.177 (talk) 07:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Feminine Forms

How might one refer to a female connoisseur? A connoisseusse perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zen tom (talk • contribs) 14:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Probably just connoisseur still; it's a gender-neutral noun in English. You could borrow the French female version, but the complication there is that the English noun doesn't even match the modern French male version, so you'd be basically creating a neologism in English. But in any case, in French, the male form is connaisseur, and the female one connaisseuse. --Delirium (talk) 17:40, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

≤≥ On Pokemon, which is my reference for most important linguistic matters, Burgundy refers to herself as a "Connoisseusse". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.172.87.2 (talk) 18:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

other spheres

People use the term connoisseur to refer to people who are knowledgable about other spheres, such as film or comics. Should there be some reference to this more modern use of the term? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Euchrid (talk • contribs) 14:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Links to this article

This article is classed as an academic discipline on a major contents page of the site. Is it really? Personally, I don't think it is. It isn't really helpful for visitors to be directed to here as if it were a proper academic subject. A useful article, important and informative, but not a discipline of its own accord by any means. Dr. Jim Dixon (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

I know what you mean, but it is arguably a "sub-discipline", though certainly mainly learnt in the art trade and museums rather than academia as such. The output very often appears in scholarly journals though. Johnbod (talk) 01:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Of course it's a "proper academic subject." A person can't just walk in off the street and say, "Oh, yes, that's a genuine Artemisia!" Pascalulu88 (talk) 14:46, 28 December 2023 (UTC)