What is fake about a fake Rembrandt?
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13 May 2026
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM - University Campus Bohunice, Kamenice 5, Brno–Bohunice, B11/132
In this lecture, you will learn about modern and cutting-edge scientific methods used to research paintings. The methods will be explained based on real and exciting cases from the history of art.
- What is hidden under Picasso's painting from his Blue Period? (Infrared reflectography.)
- What secrets and what history are connected with the painting "The Feast of the Gods" by Giovanni Bellini? (X-ray analysis.)
- What will we find out if we put the painting "The Man in the Golden Helmet" attributed to Rembrandt in a nuclear reactor? (Neutron activation analysis.)
- What did Renoir's portrait of Madame Clapisson look like at the time of its creation? (Raman spectroscopy.)
- Why are the clothes of the two ladies in Renoir's painting "Umbrellas" so different? (Classical chemical analysis.)
- How did physicists prove that Johannes Vermeer was not the author of the painting "The Supper at Emmaus"? (Isotopic analysis.)
- What is fake about a fake Rembrandt? (Artificial intelligence analysis of painting style.)
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