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artbull-evidence-and-sources
Use when assembling and handling the non-visual evidence for an Art Bulletin article — objects, archives, primary documents, provenance, and technical findings — and citing them rigorously. Art-historical claims must rest on verifiable sources, not assertion. Guides evidence handling; it does not fabricate documents or attributions.
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# Evidence & Sources (artbull-evidence-and-sources)
Beyond the object itself, an Art Bulletin argument rests on **documentary and material evidence**:
archives, inventories, contracts, letters, sale records, provenance chains, and technical/conservation
findings. This skill governs how you gather, weigh, and cite that evidence so an expert reviewer
trusts it. The looking lives in `artbull-visual-analysis`; here you handle everything else.
## When to trigger
- Building the documentary basis for dating, attribution, patronage, or reception
- Reconstructing a provenance or ownership history
- Weighing conflicting documents or an uncertain attribution
- A reviewer questioned a source, a transcription, or a chain of provenance
