Is it really a Leonardo?
Noah Charney | Aeon | 23rd May 2018
Experts have recently verified that a sketch found in France is by Leonardo da Vinci. To non-experts such connoisseurship can seem a bit like discerning “the vibe” of a work. “For all the technical gadgetry available, art-world decisions still rest largely on the subjective conclusions of individual, ultimately fallible, specialists. Forensics merely help matters along.”