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forensic-authentication

5 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture, 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

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  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