{"id":2580,"date":"2021-11-13T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/?page_id=2580"},"modified":"2021-11-13T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T11:30:04","slug":"genuine-or-fake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/genuine-or-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Genuine or fake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genuine or fake<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authenticity testing and detection of forgeries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Authenticity-5-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Authenticity-5-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-843\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The decision about an artwork being genuine or a forgery is made through style criticism &amp; connoisseurship, technical art history, material analysis and provenance research.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The authenticity of an artwork can be examined by asking the right questions on the topics <em>Style criticism &amp; Connoisseurship, Technical art history, Archaeometric analysis and Provenance research<\/em>. In the best case, all four harmonize and give a conclusive picture. The examination process can be represented as a temple. If one of the four pillars jiggles, distrust and more intense investigation is needed. If a column fails after examination, the construct becomes unstable and collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Style criticism &amp; Connoisseurship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Style criticism is the scientific analysis of the similarity relations of artworks with different methods and under different aspects.<br>Connoisseurship describes an expert&#8217;s intensive and often very intuitive engagement with an artist and his oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technical art history<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Technical art history focuses on the use of material, painting- and art technique, damages, aging phenomena, and analyses historical sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Archaeometric analysis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The archaeometric analysis provides information on the materials used in the work of art and can give information on the age and in some material groups provide a terminus post\/ante quem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Provenance research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Provenance is the documented origin of the artwork, if possible, from its day of creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verification \/ Falsification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Verification and falsification describes the basic approach to a claim. Verification searches for consistency, falsification is targeted for contradictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genuine or fake Authenticity testing and detection of forgeries The authenticity of an artwork can be examined by asking the right questions on the topics Style criticism &amp; Connoisseurship, Technical art history, Archaeometric analysis and Provenance research. In the best case, all four harmonize and give a conclusive picture. The examination process can be represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2231,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2580","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunst-gutachter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}