Forgery, replica, fiction by Christopher S. Wood

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• ianstormtaylor · 2025-12-19 in Classical statues were not painted horribly

  So, just to make it clear… you define good art by “whether the artist is any good at art”. Illuminating… —— For anyone who’s interested in a slightly more nuanced take on how people in the Middle Ages perceived of “art” — and how different that notion was to how we perceive it today — Forgery, Replica, Fiction by Christopher Wood [1] is a really interesting read. Here’s the last sentence of the G…