Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?

Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?

Jean-François Millet, “Man with a Hoe” (1860–1862) (courtesy the Getty Center) Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple works by many different artists. Forgery is not new. There have been copyists and schools teaching imitation since the time of the ancient Greeks. But in the 21st Centur…

Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries? | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?. “Scientists working with the nonprofit Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, for which I provide legal advice as an intellectual property attorney, have been collaborating for a decade on developing methods to do non-invasive testing of the works of Leonardo and other artists to assemble a ‘biome profile’ that would identify the artist.”The post Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Fo…