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The artistic expressions that have followed have had a fundamental contribution from the evolution of painting. In fact, there is an uninterrupted appreciation for both modern pictorial work and that of the “Ancient Master Painters”, globally known as “Old Masters“.

The historiography of the arts has developed the concept of authenticity starting from the century. XIX so through the verification of sources and archive research, the action of identifying those artists whose lives, for various reasons, appears to us today as a mysterious page continues. Through the verification of the materials and the artist’s style, we learned to identify any restorations and, among other things, to consider the signature as a pictorial element as well as a graphic sign.

Thanks to the collaboration of the figure of the art historian and with the support of the most modern diagnostic technologies, it is currently possible to study the work of art not simply by providing an attribution through the study of the graphic and qualitative aspect but also by verifying the coherence of the work with its support, with the preparation ground, with the pictorial film and with the protective varnish, thus providing certain interpretations that manage to grasp those nuances that allow us to distinguish between the true, the plausible and the false.

Particularly relevant in the identification of the author and in the recognition of the artistic artefact is his presence in publications, auction catalogues, exhibition or exhibition catalogues, collections… these testimonies are fundamental in relations with the foundations and institutes recognized for the production of “authentic” works which today are a fundamental document for making a statement on the art market possible.