Art buyers and how they learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb

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slaveboyforyou -> Art buyers and how they learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb (12/31/2008 1:26:17 AM)
quote: Can past nuclear explosions help detect forgeries? The inventors of a new technique for dating paintings say it can prove whether a work was made before or after 1945 ST PETERSBURG. Can nuclear explosions advance art history? A former curator from the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg believes they can. She has developed a new method for dating paintings in collaboration with Russian scientists which, she says, provides “indisputable” evidence of whether a painting was made before or after 1945. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8529 The article was written in January. But I find myself not busy and bored, so I came across this. I found it fascinating. A lot of inventions meant for warfare have found other beneficial uses. But past nuclear testing being beneficial for disproving art forgery takes the cake.

jlf1961 -> RE: Art buyers and how they learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb (12/31/2008 2:09:53 AM)
It would be better than the current carbon dating system, which has misdated many objects. If a canvas was exposed to fire and smoke, the dating is off, such as the shroud of Turin. Written records refer to the shroud at the time of Constantine, but carbon dating shows it only to be 700+/- years old.

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