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4th December 2001

Old Masters Pursued by Artistic Gumshoes

“More than 25 curators and scholars, artists and art historians will gather at New York University this weekend to discuss — and, presumably, to debate — David Hockney’s iconoclastic theory that old masters, all the way back to 1430, used optical devices to help them produce realistic images.”

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