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Re:Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damage... by cgriswald on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:47PM (#21287698)
A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. But a copy can’t answer some questions so preserving the original for future study (and new questions, ideas, and technology) is valuable.
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Re:Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damage... by simonh on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:15PM (#21287826)
The point is though that future study doesn’t necessarily have a higher value than current study. Especially if the art is likely to degrade over time in some respects anyway.
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Re:Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damage... by skeptical900067 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @10:47PM (#21288234)
>A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original.

Maybe for a lay-viewer. As an amateur realist painter, even the very best prints seem to lose 75-80% of the mark-making and process clues that are easily observable in originals.

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