I'd like to purchase a handmade replica as a birthday gift for my boyfriend. A "handmade, museum-quality reproduction" painting sounds a little bit too good to be true, so I'm worried this might be a scam.
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no reproduction would be held by a museum, and museums would hold even “low” quality artifacts that represented a significant aspect of creativity or innovation, so that’s weird wording.
But, it’s going to be oil paint on a canvas instead of a digital print. The work being reproduced is probably not covered by copyright.
i was in a museum today and they reproduce a lot of art. Sometimes its so fragile that they can't display it so they reproduce it by a master who can create exact copies
I really depends on the type of museum and what artifact they are showing
Maybe 'museum quality' means 'good enough for the gift shop'.