art museums are about technique history and money.
very few people goes to see when some such technique or style evolved. most everyone else goes for the same reason people go to disneyland. and nobody goes to see pretty pictures.
the money aspect drives the rare and eventful ones. like monalisa, there's nothing to be seen in those works besides their rarity (as can be proved by how monalisa is shown in the louvre), and their rarity spun a whole world of art deals and tax breaks via meaningless collector/museum donations among themselves. And proving those were fakes all along really upsets that hidden world, and that's why they even care. not because of the marketing fueled romantic view of art, which is only there to validate those fake money deals.
if museums were really to show historic art periods only for education, they would only have reproductions. but even reproductions can become rare, as is every single greek sculpture today (they are all XVIII century italian comercial reproductions done with the same methods and tools from today, but a recent reproduction? oh no! unthinkable)
art museums are about technique history and money.
very few people goes to see when some such technique or style evolved. most everyone else goes for the same reason people go to disneyland. and nobody goes to see pretty pictures.
the money aspect drives the rare and eventful ones. like monalisa, there's nothing to be seen in those works besides their rarity (as can be proved by how monalisa is shown in the louvre), and their rarity spun a whole world of art deals and tax breaks via meaningless collector/museum donations among themselves. And proving those were fakes all along really upsets that hidden world, and that's why they even care. not because of the marketing fueled romantic view of art, which is only there to validate those fake money deals.
if museums were really to show historic art periods only for education, they would only have reproductions. but even reproductions can become rare, as is every single greek sculpture today (they are all XVIII century italian comercial reproductions done with the same methods and tools from today, but a recent reproduction? oh no! unthinkable)