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When you buy a print of the Mona Lisa or any other famous work of art - how does the print actually get created? If it's a kind of photograph of the original how did they reproduce paintings before cameras? Did somebody actually copy the painting?
Might seem like a daft question but it really puzzled me and my friends last night over a few bottles of wine!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.yes, copying paintings by painting another one was quite common. Art students would often do this to teach themselves the techniques of the masters. Or prints might be made by etching; this would involve someone - possibly the original artist, possibly a plagiarist - doing a black and white copy of the painting to be reproduced by the etching process.
But most prints you buy today will derive from photos of the original work.