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<<If you alter the images or paintings of the great masters there your's , and shouldn't be any copyright problems.>> Since these "old masters" have long sinced past away there is no problem copying their work but normally this means copying a photograph/article or the painting in some other form that someone else alone has copyright. For example, if you were to go to the sistene chapel and photograph the ceilings then you have exclusive copyright to those photos and you can sell them and do whatever you want with them. I'd check up on where the original images of the paintings came from. You are right in that if you alter the pictures enough so that they aren't distinguishable from the original then you can overcome the copyright constraints.