Well, friends, comrades? Nothing remains. as again t /Gur'eva quote:

"I do not believe any examinations, in my own head there".

It is not good Bredis entered ugly ... .. (Some of this and the head can tear ..)

NATA NOVA, you had this in mind?


The scientists decided to debunk the racist myth of African sculpture

Specialists of the British Museum are going to study sculpture, depicting the head of the sea god Olokun from the mythology of the African Yoruba people. They suggest that the work of the Nigerian city of Ife Museum, which is a copy, may actually prove to be the original - one of the most valuable pieces of African art. , Writes The Art Newspaper.
Research will be held after June 6, when the exhibition "The kingdom of Ife in the British Museum. With the permission of the owner of sculpture, the Commission for Museums and Monuments Nigeria and Britain will hold an X-ray analysis of the bronze image. In addition, the inside of the hollow head will study under the microscope in search of the smallest parts of the mold. If the particles are found, they try to date the thermo-luminescent method.

The outer side of the head study to answer the question did not apply there when it was created modern tools and abrasives. Finally, analysis of corrosion will determine whether the statue buried in the earth.

Olokun head in 1910 discovered the famous German anthropologist Leo Frobenius-Africanist. He heard about the sculpture, buried not far from Ife, in a palm grove, dedicated to the god Olokun. The ethnographer was able to find a job, which is believed to have been founded around the year 1400 and represents one of the local kings. Soon the British colonial government was forced to bury his head back, again it unearthed only 1934.

In 1948 he studied sculpture experts of the British Museum, who found that late copy: it allegedly manufactured in a modern way, using a plaster cast, and not wax. In addition, the head found two seam, but did not find traces of ornament, which described the Frobenius. Scientists have speculated that the forger to make a copy, purge corrupt ancient sculpture to repeat the original composition of the alloy. What happened to the original, saying it was too late.

The assumption that the head Olokun actually may not be a copy, expressed an expert on West African art Nigel Barley (Nigel Barley), looking around the sculpture in January. He also noted that it is not clear why it was necessary to seek and forge the image when it was possible to simply steal it.

The Art Newspaper said "racist" overtones that sculpture found fake: in the first half of XX century art historians have decided that the Africans were not able to create such a masterpiece.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/06/olokun/

Yes! I saw the movie (BBC) with the wonderful cast reliefs, bas-goreliefs (approx 40-40 cm at the eye), and images can not find anywhere else ..
First, was made very thin detailed form of wax and then clay formwork (?)
and then poured into the wax molten metal .. Metal substituted for wax.
Metal just melted in the fire (I think in simple clay bucket) ... Well, it all looked very simple ..

examination to establish the Raphael

Examination of the painting "Madonna of the Carnation", housed in London's National Gallery, dispelling doubts that its author - Raphael, reports The Times.
Since part of the fabric, a hidden frame, samples were taken, their analysis showed that the picture could not be fake, made in the XIX century, as some experts. In particular, in the primer pigment found "cvintsovo-tin yellow, recipe production of which was lost in the XVII century. In addition, the researchers examined the gray-silver paint on the sleeve of Madonna. It was found that the pigment was based on bismuth, it is known that it was used rarely, but they enjoyed Raphael.

"Madonna of the Carnation" for a long time kept in the collection of the Duke of Northumbrian and was considered a copy of a lost original. However, in 1991 Nicholas Penny (Nicholas Penny), now the director of the National Gallery, thought it original. It was held infrared scanning, whereby a layer of paint was found drawing, characteristic of Raphael. In addition, it turned out that the artist changed the initial plan, it is unlikely that would happen if he was a copyist.

However, this did not satisfy the skeptics, and to take samples from a picture of the National Gallery could not, because she could not control. In early 2000, Duke decided to sell the picture of the American Museum of the Getty, but the British government blocked the deal to allow the National Gallery to collect the necessary sum. As a result, in 2004, the museum has collected 22 million pounds, and the government refused to take a seller's tax of 12 million pounds to "Madonna of the Carnation" remained in the UK.

Raphael will be the central exhibit of the exhibition Close Examination, which opens in the gallery on June 30. It will display works that are using scientific methods could distinguish them from counterfeits.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/06/15/raphael/

Incidentally, this method of K-Mahler called "the lost wax method" (as the official name I do not know) Mozht is called ..

Han van Meegeren Antonius
 

"The Last Supper" /second version /(Vermeer)

It was sold through an agent Straybisa (Strijbis) and dealer Hogendeyka (Hoogendijk) of Rotterdam shipowners Van Buningenu (DG van Beuningen) of 1.6 million guilders (£ 4,000,000).
Van Buningen only partially paid for with money now, most were paid "less valuable" works of art. Moreover, one of the "less valuable paintings was fake the same Van Meegerena -" Head of Christ "

The Last Supper (2nd version) 174 x 244 cm, oil on canvas, painted around 1940-41

false Delacroix picked up by

"Portrait of a Man" from the collection of London's National Gallery, once attributed to Eugène Delacroix, and then accepted a fake, may belong to another famous painter's brush - the Englishman Walter Sikerta. , Writes The Art Newspaper.
The painting is now exhibited in the National Gallery in the exhibition "A careful study: fakes, mistakes and discoveries." Sikert handed it to Tate in 1922 and in 1956 moved to the National Portrait Gallery. Initially, his dated 1830-1850 years, it was thought that Delacroix, who died in 1863, depicted Victor Considerant, French utopian socialist, a follower of Fourier. Then now admitted forgery, in particular because it depicted a man was different from Considerant.

Now curator Vizman Betsy (Betsy Wieseman) stated that it is likely Sikert (1860 - 1942) and was the author of the picture. He could try to imitate his style of French painter of the XIX century or consciously prepared hoax to fool art. In this version, in particular, can say eccentric character Sikerta.

Specializes in works of British artist Wendy Baron, however, expressed doubts that the phony Delacroix may be true Sikertom. It assumes that the artist himself had been deceived and bought a fake painting. This is supported by the fact that in a letter Sikerta from 1906 referred to some work by Delacroix, bought them in Paris.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/07/05/fake/

Fake fairies cost the artist-lover of freedom

English was sentenced to two years in prison self-taught artist who successfully faked pictures of John Anstera Fitzgerald, who wrote in the XIX century scenes from the life of fairies and elves. Robert had been convicted Tveytisu managed to sell two of his work, imitating techniques and subjects Fitzgerald, 120 thousand pounds sterling. The owner of one of the fakes, the famous London art dealer Rupert Maas is ready to continue to exhibit a copy of one of the works Tveytisa, despite the fact that the picture is fake, the newspaper The Guardian.
54-year-old Robert Tveytis told the court that Fitzgerald forged from despair: he lost his job because of deteriorating vision and was unable to pay its debts, in particular, for teaching her son at a prestigious private school. However Tveytisom condemned his brother and friend who participated in the search for buyers for paintings, but his sentence is limited to fines and probation.

Paintings by John Fitzgerald Anstera stored in several major British museums, including the gallery Tate.

http://lenta.ru/news/2006/09/19/fakes/

Works of John Anstera Fitzgerald (born 1832 - died 1906):

Fake was a rare portrait of the royal

Scientists were able to see lifetime portrait of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart in the film, which was considered a late forgery. Thus, the disposal of historians and art critics was the second in vivo image of one of the most famous European monarch XVI century, notes the London newspaper The Guardian.
The painting was purchased by the British National Portrait Gallery in 1916 for 50 pounds, after some time, experts recognized the work of low-quality copy of the XVIII century with the lost original. Only recently the curator for the collection of XVI century Tarney Cooper suggested that the forgotten portrait of a woman may be true. To test the hypothesis, she sent a picture on the X-ray analysis. Indeed, under a layer of yellow paint and a dark background was able to see the oval, framing a woman's face, and the inscription "Maria Scotiae" ("Mary of Scotland"). Additional study dendrochronology, found that board, on which a portrait was made of wood, cut down between 1560 and 1592. Based on the number of signs, Tarnow Cooper believes that the image was carried out closer to the bottom of the date, therefore, is a supravital: Mary was beheaded in 1587.

Maria Stewart, charged with conspiracy and murder of her husband, in 1567 renounced the Scottish throne in favor of his son Jacob, who later became King James I, and fled to England. Right there I was arrested by Elizabeth Mary. Deposed Queen of Scots spent twenty years in prison and was executed in 1587.

http://lenta.ru/news/2006/08/17/mary/

an unknown masterpiece Pontormo

Italian gallery owner Carlo Orsi (Carlo Orsi) discovered an unknown painting by Pontormo - the famous Florentine painter XVI century, one of the founders of mannerism. For a long time about this went only rumors, but now they are confirmed - the canvas displayed in public in a Milan gallery Orsi, reports The Art Newspaper.
First authorship of the painting was found the famous art historian Roberto Longhi (Roberto Longhi): in 1952 he described the painting as one of the best portraits by Pontormo. It is not known whether the Longwy saw a picture, or only her picture, but after no one had access to the canvas and was unable to confirm the attribution (where to store the product, the media did not specify). After Carlo Orsi found the portrait and presented it to the public, art historians unanimously acknowledged the authorship of the Florentine artist.

In addition, all experts agree that the dates of: the picture was painted between 1541 and 1544 years, it has roughly the same time as the portrait of Niccolo Ardingelli stored at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Thus, male portrait - one of the rare paintings by Pontormo, created during the work on the frescoes of the Florentine church of San Lorenzo, which had been lost.

Florentine artist, whose real name Jacopo Karuchchi (Jacopo Carucci), highly esteemed by Michelangelo, but not the famous art historian and biographer of Italian artists Giorgio Vasari. For Vasari, the work of Pontormo, as well as the nature of the artist himself, was too eccentric, and this, however, contributed to the growth of interest in the creative artist in the XX century.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/07/07/pontormo/