What do art historians do when that evidence is gone, altered, or was never made?

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Art historians are trained to look at surviving visual evidence. What do art historians do when that evidence is gone, altered, or was never made? Dr. Jennifer Van Horn examines these questions in her graduate seminar “Lost, Missing, Destroyed: Making Meaning from Art’s Impermanence” Friday, March 5, 2021. Art historians are trained to look at surviving visual evidence.