The Art Historian

Dr. Beatrice M.

Ph.D., History of Art · The Courtauld

A connoisseur of provenance now becomes the provenance. Worn whilst settling an attribution that had vexed the field for a century, this piece is its own catalogue raisonné, gusset, ergo sum. The collection’s most quotable acquisition, and its most defensible thesis.

Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (c. 1485)

Venus arrived ashore on a shell, fully formed; this arrives at your door, fully sealed, rather faster than the post of 1485.

Field

Italian Renaissance

Worn

8 hours, worn whilst attributing a contested panel

Notes

Sfumato softnessAged gessoA whisper of linseed

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