ABSTRACT
Author's Note: Except for the additional illustrations, this article is here published without change from its original 1987 publication in Visual Resources. This article was first presented as a paper in the Visual Resources Association session, “Photography: The Basic Record,” held at the XXVIth International Congress of the History of Art in Washington, 11th August 1986. 1 Since the point of this lecture was to show the types of original color slides taken by art historians as research notes, the text depended to an unusual extent on the visual images. In spite of the editor's generous provision of illustrations in this article, these can hardly replace the 69 original color slides shown in the lecture. Since there is no possibility of altering the text to provide for the missing slides, I have elected to retain the text almost exactly as presented in Washington, simply indicating where slides were shown, adding only references and a few comments in endnotes. For each work shown in the lecture, I supply here a reference to the best convenient illustration, though of course these almost always reproduce the entire object rather than the details shown and are not usually adequate for the kind of examination of evidence attempted in this lecture.
