Mystery of a Masterpiece
NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching "cold case" art mysteries as if they were crime scenes, determined to discover "who committed the art," and follows art sleuths as they deploy new techniques to combat the mult...
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"The description on IMDb isn't exactly right. While the show shows a lot of folks trying to establish the legitimacy of a painting, it is NOT really about finding frauds but about determining if one painting in particular is by Da Vinci or not. In this case, a man has recently bought a painting for $22,000 at an auction in the hope that it could be proved to be by Da Vinci. The steps they need to do are fascinating--including establishing that the velum is indeed from the Da Vinci time period, that the painting is consistent with other known Da Vinci paintings, the handedness of the pain..."
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NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching "cold case" art mysteries as if they were crime scenes, determined to discover "who committed the art," and follows art sleuths as they deploy new techniques to combat the mult...