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The Studio Wall paintings, with their collections of death masks, artists tools, and plaster casts—all weighty embodiments of tradition—show the way in which the different stages of his career generated destabilizing questions about the entire apparatus of academic tradition: from the hierarchy of genres, to the superiority of painting as a medium, to the classical ideal, and the different modes of academic training."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Legacy on the wall in Adolph Menzel’s Studio Wall paintings"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["O'Brien, David"],"dc:creator":["Gooding, Rebekah"],"dc:date":["2025-05-19","2025-08"],"dc:description":["Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. 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