When storing Renaissance oil paintings, museums conform to standards that call for careful control of the surrounding temperature and humidity, with variations confined within narrow margins. Maintaining this environment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paint is unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity. Therefore, museums could relax their standards and save money without endangering their Renaissance oil paintings.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
1. Renaissance paintings were created in conditions involving far greater fluctuations in temperature and humidity than those permitted by current standards.
2. Under the current standards that museums use when storing Renaissance oil paintings, those paintings do not deteriorate at all.
3. Museum collections typically do not contain items that are more likely to be vulnerable to fluctuations in temperature and humidity than Renaissance oil paintings.
4. None of the materials in Renaissance oil paintings other than the paint are vulnerable enough to relatively wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity to cause damage to the paintings.
5. Most Renaissance oil paintings are stored in museums located in regions near the regions where the paintings were created.

ans D

REASON for D:-
the author talks of only paint used in Renaissance oil paintings not getting spoilt anf then comes to his conclusion.... paintings do constitute of various other components like the material on which it is made, canvas wood etc....but author does not talk of all these..... so he must have assumed that 'None of the materials in Renaissance oil paintings other than the paint are vulnerable enough to relatively wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity to cause damage to the paintings.'

OA is D.....but can anyone explain whats wrong with A......

Nice explanation........I got it know

I also chose C, because I was afraid of the "none" in D (too extreme). C, however, is a little out of scope because the conclusion says "without endangering their Renaissance oil paintings" - it does not concern other things in the museum.

Yeah, makes sense now. Thanks for the clarification.


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