How Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
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[MUSIC]Han Van Meegeren might be the most famous art forger of the 20th century.He perfected the art of making fakes look really old, adding aging chemicals to hispaints, even baking the finished piece and using a rolling pin to crack the paint.He once tricked Nazi leaders into trading 137 priceless paintings for one forgery.Han’s forgeries are so well-known themselves that they’re on display in Amsterdam’sRijksmuseum.Bad fakes are easy to pick out, but how do you detect a world-class forgery from a worldclass artist?Historians typically rely on their eyes and their knowledge, and they’ve been fooledmany times.But if you want to be the next master forger, you’ve got your work cut out for you.There’s new scientific tools that make it almost impossible to pass of...
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[MUSIC]Han Van Meegeren might be the most famous art forger of the 20th century.He perfected the art of making fakes look really old, adding aging chemicals to hispaints, even baking the finished piece and using a rolling pin to crack the paint.He once tricked Nazi leaders into trading 137 priceless paintings for one forgery.Han’s forgeries are so well-known themselves that they’re on display in Amsterdam’sRijksmuseum.Bad fakes are easy to pick out, but how do you detect a world-class forgery from a worldclass artist?Historians typically rely on their eyes and their knowledge, and they’ve been fooledmany times.But if you want to be the next master forger, you’ve got your work cut out for you.There’s new scientific tools that make it almost impossible to pass of...
