# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Attribution note](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/assessments/attribution-note/): A short, single-thread argument for or against one painting's attribution, built from materials and/or brushwork evidence alone.
- [The dossier](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/assessments/dossier/): A full authentication dossier on one disputed painting, working every evidence type the semester has taught and logging where they disagree.
- [Final project: verdict and defense](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/assessments/final-project/): A full dossier on one painting of your choosing, defended live in the week-12 seminar against questions aimed at its weakest point.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Why Tang Yin](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-01/): The scale of the problem this course spends a semester on, and the case for using one painter's oeuvre to teach it.
- [Jianding: the discipline of deciding](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-02/): The Chinese connoisseurship tradition, and James Cahill's split between its "verbal" method and a "visual" one.
- [What the object is made of](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-03/): Paper, silk, ink and pigment as evidence that doesn't care what anyone's eye thinks it sees.
- [Reading a hand](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-04/): Brushwork as the connoisseur's primary evidence, and why it's also the hardest kind to defend in writing.
- [Seals: carved, collected, forged](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-05/): Why a seal is often more informative than a signature, and how seal forgery actually gets caught.
- [Colophons and the paper trail](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-06/): Reading collector inscriptions and catalogue entries as documentary evidence, in the spirit of kaozheng textual criticism.
- [The Suzhou pian economy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-07/): How a forgery market actually operates --- workshop production, demand, and the paintings that eventually outgrew the label "fake."
- [One painting, argued both ways](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-08/): A single disputed scroll, worked through with the whole toolkit, as a rehearsal for the dossier.
- [What a model sees](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-09/): Stroke-level machine learning as a second, tireless opinion --- and exactly what it can't tell you.
- [The forger as artist](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-10/): Zhang Daqian, who forged well enough to fool the field he later joined, and what that does to the ethics of the fake.
- [The six as-ifs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-11/): Tang Yin's own Buddhist sobriquet, the Diamond Sutra line behind it, and what illusion has to do with authenticity.
- [Defending a verdict](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/lectures/week-12/): The last lecture: what the final project asks for, and why a defended verdict still matters after week 11.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/people/idris-fenn/): A conservation scientist who teaches the seminars on materials and seals, and marks how a claim about ink or stone actually gets tested.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/people/marisol-quaye/): The convenor, whose own doctoral work catalogued a private Suzhou collection and found six confident misattributions inside its first twenty scrolls.
- [Wren Okafor](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/people/wren-okafor/): A postdoc in computational art history, guest-teaching the one week that asks what a model can and can't add to a connoisseur's eye.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/policies/): Late work, extensions, the seminar attendance rule, and where the course's own subject matter changes what counts as academic integrity.
- [Two piles](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/01-two-piles/): Six reproductions, three securely attributed and three disputed, sorted cold before anyone says which is which.
- [Verbal versus visual](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/02-verbal-visual/): Arguing the same disputed painting twice --- once from documents alone, once from the image alone --- and comparing verdicts.
- [Materials lab](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/03-materials-lab/): Handling period-correct paper, silk and pigment samples under Idris's supervision, and reading a real fibre-analysis report.
- [Brushwork clinic](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/04-brushwork/): Building a shared vocabulary for describing a stroke, then using it against your own attribution-note painting.
- [Seal clinic](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/05-seal-clinic/): Matching seal impressions against a dated reference set, then a last check on the attribution note before it's due.
- [Colophon reading](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/06-colophon-reading/): Close-reading a chain of translated colophons on one scroll, link by link, before the mid-semester break.
- [The market sourcebook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/07-market-sourcebook/): Shortlisting three disputed paintings for week 8's case study from a sourcebook of Suzhou pian production records.
- [Case study, full toolkit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/08-case-study/): The shortlisted painting, argued with every instrument the semester has built, the week the dossier is due.
- [Model audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/09-model-audit/): Running Wren's stroke-level classifier against the semester's shortlist, then trying to break it.
- [The forger's own account](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/10-forger-biography/): Reading Zhang Daqian's interviews and later scholarship on his forgeries in his own words, and in the words of the collectors he fooled.
- [Reading the six as-ifs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/11-six-as-ifs/): A close, unhurried reading of the Diamond Sutra's closing gatha against Tang Yin's own choice of it as a name.
- [Defenses](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-liuru/sessions/12-defense/): Ten-minute live defenses of the final project's verdict, questioned by the room, and the re-sort from week 1.