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“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

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Andrew Graham-Dixon

Andrew Graham-Dixon is a renowned British art historian, known for his research on the Renaissance period. Born on December 26, 1960, he has been a core figure on the BBC's 'Art Detective' program since the 1980s, which focuses on exploring art works and artists around the world. more

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