justice can it decide on the authenticity of the "Princess Belle"?
The High Court of New York receives. The former owner of Christie's attack for negligent assignment. Vezzosi
Kemp and lean heavily, for a portrait Leonardian, experts from the auction house for a German painting of the 19th century. Meanwhile
interminable debates without doubt, one thing seems clear, for a attributionniste the culmination of his life can quickly turn into a nightmare.
All his life he waits for the phone call asking him to exercise his knowledge to determine whether painting, drawing, or sculpture is to hand.
He saw the works, rejected people safer to have the masterpiece, but there he was sure, his eye falls one by one the clues leading him to take the crucial decision. Science is not just. A carbon-14 dating, the explosion of atomic bombs too imprecise, pigments, photos raking light, infra-red etc.. everything contributes to support the thesis. The writings are cryptic but he knows how to interpret. The absence of evidence is already evidence.
Attribution is broken jaws, soft science where the error you dedicated to purgatory for years if the thing is to know.
Many experts are wrong, but they remain in the mainstream of small masters, Leonardo and Michelangelo is another matter.
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