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Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by david927 on Monday November 11, 2024 @06:46PM (#42111475)
There's a reason why you have connoisseurs. You can fool carbon dating by using materials from that time. I'll have to look into the x-rays and what they show, but it can be quite hard to prove art authentic with scientific methods alone.
Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by PittleyDunkin on Monday November 11, 2024 @07:29PM (#42111720)
It'd make a lot more sense to fake the black market copies you actually make money off of.
Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by tough on Monday November 11, 2024 @08:27PM (#42112028)
Unless you wanna keep the original for yourself too
Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by PittleyDunkin on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:30AM (#42115324)
That doesn't seem very smart.
Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by starlite-5008 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:35AM (#42115344)
The theft of the painting generated unprecedented publicity.
Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by Retric on Monday November 11, 2024 @11:07PM (#42112727)
Carbon dating was developed ~30 years after the panting was recovered.

So, the idea someone was going to the effort to use at the time 400 year old material to fool a test nobody knew as even possible, just doesn’t fit.

Re:The Heist That Made the Mona Lisa Famous by throwup238 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:01AM (#42112943)
They wouldn’t be able to do much with an oil painting. Any old drying oil from that time period would have long ago polymerized and carbon isotopes in any new oil used to mix the pigments would be a dead giveaway.