Art history isn’t so much about how to spot beauty and truth, but about how history is documented in Art as opposed to literature.
Yes reading and studying the history depicted in the art object would greatly add to understanding how and why the artist created the piece. The aesthetics is a separate issue for the viewer, more personal and subjective.
Right right of course, also it’s not usually so much about if an event is literally painted so much as the way it’s painted and what it means to the people of the era when it was painted.
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I was able to visit the Louvre on a trip to France in 2003. Incredible what was there. The little Mona Lisa painting behind plexiglass was a quite a jar based on the infamy of the painting. There were huge paintings of knights and soldiers and all kinds of Roman relics. Didn’t have time for everything. Monet’s work had a special exhibit. Was able to tour Salvador Dali’s studio in the Montmartre.
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This is why the Constantine article and video cannot be found.
“Didn’t have time for everything” — priceless! 
The L’Ouvre has stuff they used to exhibit freely that now is archived, even scrubbed from the internet. It is sort of a Smithsonian-like entity, an arbiter of Truth. Maybe the art curation is also under direction of the “temporal” curators — people who determine what history we are allowed to perceive, and therefore conceive of, at any given moment. Interesting to ponder whether museum directors are actually in charge of guiding humanity and/or possibly keeping them in the dark. Maybe they are “Mr.Global”???
Good to know that there is a Montmartre Dali studio open for visitors. If Paris ever calms down( relative, I know), I might go there. He and other surrealists had a knack for painting future-history.
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The Van Gogh Museum has a lot of art in their basement that is never exhibited also, but this is mainly because a lot of paintings purchased by some of the previous museum curators don’t have anything at all to do with Vincent’s work.
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Case in point; this influential “controversial” individual, along with his TWIN brother Eske( a genetecist), have both run and runs some of the most prestigious institutions in the world. He also seems to be very popular and gives speeches, tours and humourous interviews.
Rane Willerslev:
Rane Willerslev - Wikipedia
Methinks the “controversial” bit is staged, and abetted by the other powers that be.
Just one of those run-if-the-mill people that really rule this world…
P.s. This should frighten you.
Odd fellows I’d say raised by an odd father.
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Do you know if he’s involved with the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum then? This used to be the Dutch Royal Academy of art, our art history class went there every Tuesday for two months there is so much art would take years to be able to see it all. Was only in Paris for a day to see some of the L’Ouvre, lot there too.
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Exactly what I had been thinking!
Odd Fellows Mansion, Copenhagen - Wikipedia Odd Fellows Mansion, Copenhagen - Wikipedia
Dude gets around, that’s what I can say for sure. However, Denmark is also a monarchy, so there would be close ties with the RijksMuseum.
—— Even just as there are very close ties between these “reichs”-museums and the various Royal Libraries, that have rare books that are quite difficult to pry from their hands, if you are even able to find out that they exist at all.
You may have better luck translating this page than I had. But the pictures and layout alone do paint him as a bit of a rock star:
Rane Willerslev - Lecturer
- Foredragsholder - Forside - Officiel hjemmeside https://www.ranewillerslev.dk/
Official homepage.
And his celebrity/TV Star twin brother:
Eske Willerslev
| World famous DNA scientist and adventurer https://eskewillerslev.com/
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Keep em coming please!!!
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Best cartoonist…loved his work.
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The Best.
Got his books as Christmas gifts to family.