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Today's obsession with assigning singular attribution to Old Masters may be lucrative, but it is often misleading


Sotheby’s will auction Portrait of a Youth (left), attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo, seen next to Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel
Photo: Julian Cassady Photography; Courtesy Sotheby’s
“When we say, ‘This is a Botticelli,’ what do we mean? If the phrase implies that the master conceived the work and executed it without assistance, few paintings would qualify,” writes Jonathan Nelson, teaching professor at Syracuse University, Florence, in his 2009 article, “‘Botticelli’ or ‘Filippino’? How to Define Authorship in a Renaissance Workshop”.
“With the exception of some very small works,” Nelson notes, “virtually all paintings by major Renaissance artists were made with varying degrees of workshop assistance.” ....

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Haberdashers' Aske's schools could change name after discovering founder's links to slave trade


Two of Britain s most prestigious private schools could change their name after it was discovered their founder had shares in a slave trading company.
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School (Habs) in Elstree and its sister school, the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, are considering a name change due to ties with the colonial past.
In a letter to parents, the chariman of both schools announced great sadness at the revelation that founder Robert Aske had shares in the Royal African Company - which was responsible for shipping around 100,000 people from the West Coast of Africa to the colonies in the West Indies and America. ....

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'Looking just gorgeous': Granddaughter of $80m Botticelli's former owner on living with the masterpiece


When Suzy Lewis, the granddaughter of the physicist and inventor Thomas Merton, saw that Botticelli’s
Portrait of a Young Man with a Roundel (“just looking so gorgeous”) was up for sale again, it came as “such a shock”.
In December 1982, the family estate sent it to auction at Christie’s. It proved an “absolute disaster”, Lewis says, and sold for just £810,000 it was expected to make “infinitely more”. Everything had been prepared for the portrait to go to the Getty, Lewis says: the family had even been advised to delay the sale until the Getty was ready to buy, which they duly did. But the night before the sale, the ....

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