The Wallace Collection, London, UNITED KINGDOM 26 June 2013 Cranfield University, Lauréat de la Bourse Annette Giacometti , is proud to host its first public seminar event ‘Art Meets Science: The Detection of Fakes and Forgeries’. The seminar will feature international speakers from the wo...
Continue reading ...In most exhibitions in the Sainsbury Wing the pictures are dominant, the words on the walls discreet. In Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries the words are large and insistent. It is as though the pictures are being publicly shamed, like criminals paraded with their offences written on...
Continue reading ...National Gallery, London, UNITED KINGDOM 30 June-12 December 2010 The exhibition will showcase some of the most intriguing stories behind paintings in the National Gallery, as it explores the ways in which advances in scholarship and technology can reveal the misconceptions of the past. Working ...
Continue reading ...Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS 12 May-22 August 2010 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents ‘Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers’, an exhibition of the famous forgeries of Han van Meegeren. Van Meegeren craftily exploited art historians’ desire to discover early works...
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