Ashley Couto is a PhD student in Medieval Studies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa studying late medieval tomb sculpture in Portugal. She is also an award-winning writer and journalist based in Montreal with bylines in Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel+Leisure, Observer, Queerty, etc.
We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the United States, little aware of the appetites and inclinations of those who acquired them.
