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artbull-evidence-and-sources

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Use when assembling and handling the non-visual evidence for an Art Bulletin article — objects, archives, primary documents, provenance, and technical findings — and citing them rigorously. Art-historical claims must rest on verifiable sources, not assertion. Guides evidence handling; it does not fabricate documents or attributions.

When to use

• Building the documentary basis for dating, attribution, patronage, or reception
• Reconstructing a provenance or ownership history
• Weighing conflicting documents or an uncertain attribution
• Handling archival documents, inventories, contracts, wills, correspondence, and sale records
• Citing technical art history reports such as X-radiography or dendrochronology
• Distinguishing evidence from inference in art-historical claims

When not to use

• Fabricating documents or attributions
• Visual analysis of the object itself

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