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A Protocol for Authentication of Paintings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Walter C. McCrone
Walter C. McCrone*
Affiliation:
McCrone Research Institute and Eugene Markowski, Trinity College

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Strictly speaking, it is impossible to authenticate any painting to the extent of naming the artist who produced that object. One can only increase the likelihood thereof. In one celebrated case I felt I had fully proved that Manets palette had indeed been used to paint a particular painting but a “scholar” on whose reaction the art world depends for final acceptance of authenticity only said “someone” could have borrowed Manets palette one fine day and painted that picture. In a second celebrated case I was able to prove, but not convince, the world that a particular painting (Shroud of Turin) was, in fact, a painting and not an artifact produced by some other mysterious means, e.g., some sort of photographic process or resurrection itself.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 5 , June 2000 , pp. 8 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

References

1. McCrone, W.C.; Authenticity Study of a Possible Manet Painting; Microscope 1987 35, 173–194.Google Scholar
2. McCrone, W.C., The Shroud of Turin: Blood or Artist's Pigments? Accts. of Chem. Res. 1990 23, 77.Google Scholar
3. McCrone, W.C., Graham, L. and J.A., Polizzi, Microscope 1996 44, 119–136.Google Scholar