When Seth Adelsberger speaks about his work, one gets the impression that he is madly in love with “painting” (the verb), but distrustful of “painting” (the noun). The act of creating a painting is ...

Samples taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic paintings Mona Lisa and the Last Supper suggest the renowned Renaissance artist played around with chemicals, causing a rare toxic compound to form in his ...

THE AMOUNT of creativity that forgers put into their work can sometimes rival that of the artists they copy. A sharp eye and an uncertain provenance might suggest to someone that a particular work is ...

This is an image, made using an optical microscope, of the sample taken from “Bank of the Seine” studied with synchrotron X-rays. The brown layer on top of the paint is varnish, it appears opaque but ...