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Russian
Etymology
-о- (-o-, “art”) + иску́сство (iskússtvo, “knowledge, competence”) + ве́дение (védenije), calque of German Kunstwissenschaft.
Pronunciation
Noun
искусствове́дение • (iskusstvovédenije) n inan (genitive искусствове́дения, uncountable)
- history of art, art history.
- до́ктор искусствове́дения ― dóktor iskusstvovédenija ― doctor in history of art
Declension
References
- Shansky, N. M., editor (1980), “искусствоведение”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2, number 7 (И), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 120