Even the trained eye of the art historian, curator, or the connoisseur can be fooled into thinking a forged work of art is the real deal. Now of course science is coming to the rescue with novel, minimally or non-invasive, and extraordinarily clever new methods to establish the true provenance of artworks.
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Can science help detect art forgeries? It can.