Conservation services & scientific study of works of art
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In the news Breaking news: Discovery of a hitherto unknown Leonardo drawing The following pages with links below are reproduced from a selection of media sources. Most of them are about the first successful use of fingerprint identification to authenticate a work of art - a painting by J. M. W. Turner.
Some contain inaccurate references about ownership and the circumstances of finding the match. The RCMP or 'Mounties' were never involved officially or unofficially. There was a consultation for a second opinion with a retired RCMP fingerprint examiner. But, overall the articles demonstrate well how much resistance there is in the art world to introducing the time-proven reliability of fingerprint identification - in this case it took ten years to convince the rest of the art world. Finally, the ice broke only with the world-wide media sensation the fingerprint match sparked. The evidence could no longer be ignored. In addition to the press, the event was widely featured on television by the BBC, CBC and many other networks. In contrast, only one scholarly journal, Turner Society News paid any attention. MORE Peter Paul Biro's 2003 authentication of a lost major work by Jackson Pollock created a media storm. These included appearances on NBC Today with Matt Lauer, CNN, as well as many other networks internationally. In print, from the Guardian, London, to The Age, Australia, many covered the story.
Anderson Cooper interviewing Peter Paul Biro for 60 Minutes on CBS. (Photo Laszlo Biro)
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Here are some links:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/start.html?pg=7
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1006666,00.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1058628942660_218/?hub=Entertainment#
http://www.ledevoir.com/2003/07/30/32842.html?218
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/fnews/2003-sept/page20.shtml
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