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There's a story to be told here about how a clever forger managed to find wood from the 1600's, knew enough about Rembrandt's techniques to use some lead paint,
by StrictDabbler 5y ago
There's a story to be told here about how a clever forger managed to find wood from the 1600's, knew enough about Rembrandt's techniques to use some lead paint, and recreated his style well but stumbled by using pigments that weren't developed until the 1800's.
That story doesn't come out. Instead we get a painfully awkward sophomore science lab write up in the style of "we used techniques for identifying elements to identify the elements of the painting and determine whether the elements were consistent with the elements used in Rembrandt's time."
Pretty rough.