There's a reason why you have connoisseurs. You can fool carbon dating by using materials from that time. I'll have to look into the x-rays and what they show, but it can be quite hard to prove art authentic with scientific methods alone.
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They wouldn’t be able to do much with an oil painting. Any old drying oil from that time period would have long ago polymerized and carbon isotopes in any new oil used to mix the pigments would be a dead giveaway.
Carbon dating was developed ~30 years after the panting was recovered.
So, the idea someone was going to the effort to use at the time 400 year old material to fool a test nobody knew as even possible, just doesn’t fit.
It'd make a lot more sense to fake the black market copies you actually make money off of.
Unless you wanna keep the original for yourself too
That doesn't seem very smart.