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Day 176 -> On fake Paintings and how to detect them

11/12/2013

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A fake painting of Hans Holbein (Image found on The National Gallery Exhibition of Fake Paintings)
    The great masters of painting have always been victims of copycats. But how do you know when you're looking at a fake painting?
     Sophisticated frauds often are only unmasked with the help of multidisciplinary exams and detailed evaluations. X-rays, UV light, infra-red, grazing light and chemical analysis are some of the tests used to evaluate the fidelity of a suspicious painting. A team of scientists usually includes an art historian, a conservative, a graph documents copyst and a chemist. Each exam and their comments are reunited in reports that often have more than a hundred pages. Sometimes, though, even the specialists can't be sure about a possible fraud.
~Ally
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