Millions of records, spanning five centuries

Here is how the Marlowe Provenance Index is changing research on the social life of art.

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Through it, we can see that painters acquired works from fellow artists, and often how much they paid for them.

Index data reveals the scale and complexity of their collective influence.

Follow any work back through every hand that held it.

Fictional archive. All names, works and figures are invented for this study.