I'm sad I missed the Tutankhamun thing when it was in the States. The closest it was to me was I about 10 hours away and my friends and I could never seem to get our ducks in a row for that road trip.

If the were talking about copying famous art works and what they learned by copying them then I would be all for it. Artists have been copying other's works for ages in order to learn techniques for ages. We did that in both my drawing and painting classes. You really do learn a lot that you may not have considered if hadn't tried to replicate it. That could be an interesting discussion for an art history comm.

On the other hand if they're trying to sell their reproductions, I would say that probably doesn't have a place on a discussion comm.

I also wouldn't think an Art History comm wouldn't be the place to share your own art work. Surely there are comms that are all about sharing artists' work amongst it's members. I don't think it would be a huge deal if someone posted a link to their Esty shop just as an FYI with the pic of their art work in such a art sharing comm.

It does sort of annoy me when the same person constantly advertises on a comm. In several of the kimono comms I belong to someone keeps posting ads with with nothing but a big pic of the store's logo on about a weekly basis. It ends up in about 3 or 4 comms and as far as I can tell they mostly have Korean stuff and very few kimono goods at all. I get so sick of seeing it.

So that's my long convoluted opinion. : )