Is This Rembrandt a Real One?

Roland Piquepaille writes "About a year ago, I told you about how computer scientists from Dartmouth college were investigating digital images. But they're also interested in old paintings authentication, as reports Wired Magazine in The Rembrandt Code. Mathematicians are using high-resolution digital cameras and computers to examine old paintings and evaluate their authenticity. Even the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is asking them to discover which of the 42 paintings it owns and that were once believed to be Rembrandts are really authentic. The Wired article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references about this authentication process."

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Sorry Roland Piquepaille

[TubeSteak]

After digging some more, I'm an idiot and the people getting pissed over this are idiots too.

http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=Roland+Piquepa ille+writes&sort=1&op=stories&threshold=1

I skipped back through the history and he's been submitting stories since 2002. I randomly spot checked untill i got to 270 articles. The vast vast vast majority of those articles the /. search turned up belonged to him, so lay off.

It seems like slashbots (me included) occasionaly go into fits of hysterics over a perceived abuse of the submissions bin. See past threads belonging to Roland Piquepaille for examples.

As I drew my original conclusion in pencil, I'd ask that whoever has points mod my previous post and (others like it) -1 Overrated

I will now STFU. Thank you for listening.

Re:And what if they're not real?

[The_Rook]

that's why they say "counterfeits are art's revenge on art collectors".

More to it than copying.

[Mr. Freeman]

Being able to copy a painting doesn't imply talent.
Remember in grade school when your art teacher told you to copy a picture? First, you put a grid over the source picture and draw a grid scaled up or down over the destination picture. You then try to replicate each box as well as you can.
It usually turns out quite well.

Now, try doing that without a picture to copy. You know how all of the techniques work, how and when to use them, but you still won't be able to draw a "masterpiece".