LSAT－24－4－10

Questions 9-10

Curator: The decision to restore the cloak of the central figure in Veronese’s painting from its present red to the green found underneath is fully justified. Reliable x-ray and chemical tests show that the red pigment was applied after the painting had been completed, and that the red paint was not mixed in Veronese’s workshop. Hence it appears likely that an artist other than Veronese tampered with Veronese’s painting after its completion.

Art critic: But in a copy of Veronese’s painting made shortly after Veronese died, the cloak is red. It is highly unlikely that a copyist would have made so major a change so soon after Veronese’s death.

10.   The art critic’s response to the curator would provide the strongest support for which one of the following conclusions?

(A) The copy of Veronese’s painting that was made soon after the painter’s death is indistinguishable from the original.

(B) No painting should be restored before the painting is tested with technologically sophisticated equipment.

(C) The proposed restoration will fail to restore Veronese’s painting to the appearance it had at the end of the artist’s lifetime.

(D) The value of an artist’s work is not necessarily compromised when that work is tampered with by later artists.（C）

(E) Veronese did not originally intend the central figure’s cloak to be green

理解有问题：

馆长要把Veronese's painting 由现在的红色的cloak，还原成原著的绿色，因为认为是后来的另一个artist 篡改成红色的。

批判家说Veronese死后的复制品cloak 是红色的，It is highly unlikely that a copyist would have made so major a change so soon after Veronese’s death.（是说copyist不可能作出这么大的改动）是在说，原著就应该是红色的吗？。那E 为什么不对？

your understanding is correct, but E is an assumption not a conclusion.