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Graveyard or Goldmine?

6+ hour, 15+ min ago   (184+ words) With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner. Now, artists wade through six hundred years of…...