Not only C14, a new method can help uncovering when and where a painting on canvas was produced Forget about counting threads through a mini magnifying glass or describing canvases using subjective classifications. In the technical laboratories of Museo Nacional del...
Diagnostics helps Next week at auction, respectively at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, two paintings connected to Rembrandt will be offered: the first, at Christie’s, was recently downgraded to “Follower of Rembrandt” (Christie’s); the second, at Sotheby’s, has had its...
But Rose Dugdale A man suspected of being the fourth member of the gang behind the Louvre theft was arrested along with his brother, his sister, and a friend: two men and two women. An unusual gender balance. This week marks the international campaign against violence...
Our Study of a Corpus of Forged Drawings at the IG-IIC Conference “Paper, Pen, and Ink: Diagnostics and Restoration of Writing Materials” Writing materials are not among the most studied, yet scientific analysis techniques can naturally be applied to them as well,...
A conference at the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Arezzo revealed the extraordinary refinement of the techniques used by Margarito and his contemporaries A major international project has brought together many of the most prestigious European and...