Programme offers an intensive immersion into the challenges of connoisseurship and the documentation of art; it concentrates principally on Old Master paintings; modern art; furniture and ceramics; it teaches connoisseurship using the wealth of art objects available at Sotheby's auction house; in London 's museums in public and in private houses and collections for first-hand study; this visual and hands-on approach supported by a thorough grounding in the materials, techniques and physical properties of art objects forms a foundation for object-based research and the development of professional expertise.
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