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Information and Ideas practice question
An art historian claims that the portrait was painted after 1750.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. The blue in the sitter's coat is Prussian blue mixed with a synthetic white that was not manufactured until the 1760s.Correct
- B. The sitter is wearing a coat.
- C. The frame was made in 1700.
- D. Portraits were popular in the eighteenth century.
Answer: A. The blue in the sitter's coat is Prussian blue mixed with a synthetic white that was not manufactured until the 1760s.
A pigment unavailable before the 1760s puts the painting after 1750.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The sitter is wearing a coat.
- Clothing alone dates nothing here.
- C. The frame was made in 1700.
- A frame can be older or newer than its painting.
- D. Portraits were popular in the eighteenth century.
- Popularity spans the whole century.
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