Art historians

The interest of investing in art and the general “boom” of the art market in recent decades has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of fakes. Many of these forgeries are very sophisticated and cannot be recognized by the layman with the naked eye. Noah Charney introduces his book “The Art of Forgery” with the motto: “Don’t always believe what you see.”

The art historians involved in the TRINITY project work with procedures comparable to those of detectives, because in the practice of connoisseurship, things are usually complex and, in a way, unique.

The art historians involved in the TRINITY project are top experts in their specializations, who have many years of experience and knowledge of the art market. They use empirical and historical methods such as formal analytical characteristics, comparative analysis (identification of works of art by comparative methods of style, subject matter, temporal aspects and other common features), heuristics and criticism of source materials. Subjective intuition and experience is also of top priority, whereby historians can benefit from the large amount of comparative material accumulated over their years of practice in their specially trained visual memory.