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Authentikon

Attribution disputes, technical art history, sleepers and rediscoveries, forgeries, and the authentication boards that decide what a painting is worth.

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How Paintings Are Authenticated

Authentication is three separate investigations that have to agree: the documentary record, the physical object, and the

What Technical Art History Can and Cannot Prove

Infrared, X-ray, dendrochronology and pigment analysis are powerful and routinely oversold. Here is what each actually e