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thumb|upright=1.35|Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon by [[Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.]]

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19 sections
Contents
  • Works of art and antiques
  • Researching the provenance of paintings
  • Archives
  • Books
  • Pianos
  • Piano Provenance and Valuation
  • Wines
  • Science
  • Archaeology, anthropology, and paleontology
  • Data provenance
  • Computer science
  • Whole-system provenance implementation for Linux
  • Petrology
  • Seed provenance
  • Computers and law
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.35|Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon by [[Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.]]

Provenance () is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archival science, economy, computing, and scientific enquiry in general.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “provenance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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