A Case of Art Fraud Unmasked

Palenik, S. (1999) A Case of Art Fraud Unmasked. Micro Notes July.

Published on: 7/1/1999

An interesting application of analytical microscopy is the detection of art and archaeology hoaxes. The benefits of a microscopical approach to these problems arise not only from the capacity to deal with microscopic samples, but also the “resolving” ability of a microscope to distinguish a small inhomogeneity and exploit it.