And in her art history classes, which inspire the screenplay's most intelligent writing, she challenges her students to do more than simply identify paintings shown in slides.
Usefully, the exhibition catalog identifies comparative paintings for some of the graphic works, giving viewers with a serious interest in the artist a chance to see the ways in which he reused forms, symbols and compositional structures.
Presence of this pigment in Italian paintings was relatively widely investigated and it was identified in paintings from the region of Tuscany (Florence, Pisa, Siena), Veneto (Venice) and Lazio (Viterbo) [32].
It did not identify the paintings.
Once she warned the curators about worn varnish, and at the Kunsthistoriche she complained about missing plaques that identified the paintings as being from the Rothschild family.
Even people who wouldn't claim to know anything about art and who have never visited a gallery would be able to identify his paintings.
The Babar family sees elephants, he said, but, by observing that, children can learn how to identify with paintings more personally.
Wearing his chef whites from Sonia Rose, he identified the paintings on the wall as being from the restaurant as well; it felt almost as if a widower were displaying precious mementos of a lost life.
It may not be any easier to identify true paintings by Giorgione, but this important event put the "Giorgionesque" mood of delicate sensuality right back at the centre of western art, where it belongs.
"Zurbarán," at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, is the first show dedicated to the artist since the landmark publication of the first volume of Odile Delenda's catalogue raisonné of the artist's work in 2009, which identified 286 paintings as being by his own hand.
