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Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art.

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'Many of my students somehow imagine that there's some United Nations High Commission for good knowledge in art. There is no such thing, there's nothing, there's no universal overarching entity that establishes good knowledge in art. '

Jeffrey Taylor, PhD in Comparative History, Western Colorado University

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