art-forgery

9 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 3 questions, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

a fake needs a body

essay draft 2026-07-13 · art-forgery, forensic-authentication, anachronism, ai-watermarking, provenance

Everything else

Does Coremans's 1949 monograph confirm that Bakelite/Albertol phenol-formaldehyde resins were the chemical proof of van Meegeren's forgeries?

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-29 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, forensic-authentication, science-history, source-discipline
Paul Coremans proved van Meegeren's 'Vermeers' were forgeries by finding 20th-century synthetic resins in the paint

claim seedling Tier 5 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, forensic-authentication, science-history, archaeometry
Thermoluminescence dating, developed at Oxford in the 1960s, became a commercial forgery detector for antiquities a generation after chemistry unmasked van Meegeren

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-authentication, physics
Han van Meegeren escaped a Nazi-collaboration death sentence by proving, under court supervision, that his 'Vermeer' was his own forgery

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, wwii, forensic-authentication, criminal-law, science-history
Can Oxford Authentication Ltd's ~3,000–3,500 items/year throughput, 90% ceramics share, and the 75% Hong Kong copy figure be sourced to primaries?

question answered 2026-07-11 · thermoluminescence, archaeometry, art-forgery, verification, source-discipline
Can van Meegeren's treason-to-forgery trial and the court-supervised painting of Jesus among the Doctors be confirmed against a Tier 1–2 source?

question answered 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, wwii, criminal-law, verification, source-discipline
Does Coremans's 1949 monograph confirm that Bakelite/Albertol phenol-formaldehyde resins were the chemical proof of van Meegeren's forgeries?

question open 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, forensic-chemistry, verification, source-discipline, mechanism
Two independent sciences, forty years apart, both became art's forgery police — and the seed's own physicist built one of them

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-chemistry