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Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries.
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'Ttitanium white is understood to have entered production and distribution at the date of 1921. Titanium is really easy to detect with our device, and it often helps us to solve our biggest problems with art forgeries because so many artists who are worth a lot of money today – Monet, Renoir, Degas, Modigliani – they would all die before 1921 and therefore we can assume with great confidence that they never had titanium in their paintings. So if we do find titanium, it's very quickly we can determine that this is not by them, it's by someone else.'
Jeffrey Taylor, PhD in Comparative History, Western Colorado University
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Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/scientific-examination-of-art-10266
'Ttitanium white is understood to have entered production and distribution at the date of 1921. Titanium is really easy to detect with our device, and it often helps us to solve our biggest problems with art forgeries because so many artists who are worth a lot of money today – Monet, Renoir, Degas, Modigliani – they would all die before 1921 and therefore we can assume with great confidence that they never had titanium in their paintings. So if we do find titanium, it's very quickly we can determine that this is not by them, it's by someone else.'
Jeffrey Taylor, PhD in Comparative History, Western Colorado University
Knowledge in Art: serious-science.org/knowledge-in-art-10232
Leonardo da Vinci: serious-science.org/leonardo_da_vinci-8183
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