Just a few artists to copy them - and one or two visitors like yourself notice them.

The artists were copying them just for practice, or to sell as copies afterwards.

Hellenistic artists copied and adapted earlier styles, and also made great innovations.

Parrish devised many innovative techniques which no other major artist has successfully copied.

In fact, a skilled artist copied the 605 pages of the holy book using Saddam Hussein's blood.

In a third picture, a sketch of the same subject done two years after that, the artist could only copy gross details from previous paintings.

Several young artists were copying some of the paintings on the museum's walls.

"The artist copying the image was remarkable," Mahskevic explained.

In Leonardo's day, many artists, fearing the fresco's demise, copied it.

That's right, no one has ever used the expression "good artists copy, great artists steal" in a cheeky fashion before.