I'm not a hardcore art history major per se; it's my minor, but I am an art conservation major, which is probably one third to a half art history. I think I'm lucky to specialize in an area that is probably not much more than a list to many people -- I'm not knocking, I try to do the same with Lit. Unfortunately for me, art's probably the only subject where I can hang with a good majority of the players (and it reflects in my stats ;) hehe). Getting back to the topic of expanding the canon to include art historians, I think it's a reasonable proposal. It's obvious that historians like Greenberg, Panofsky, Gombrich, and current historians like T.J. Clark and many others shape the way we view and think about art and how it connects to historical, social, economic, religious, anthropological, etc environments of the time of artistic creation. Maybe I'm biased, in fact I know I am, but I don't think it's reasonable to exclude a well-known answer in a given field just because a majority of the "corpus of players" haven't been exposed to them. I don't know thing 1 about Necho's first campaign other than there was one, and there have probably been tossups and clues about his travels to Karkamesh. In the end, I guess the only way to expand the canon to include such people is to write them into questions and see if the question editors give them a shot without burrying them at question 26 of the backup packet. (Could be worse, I could be asking for questions on famous figures in the field of art conservation.) :) my two not very well organized cents, matt cushman
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