Pursuits
Fake Botticelli, Iffy Holbein Fooled London’s National Gallery
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An Old Master painting in a museum, you might think, will be exactly what the label says. That’s not necessarily so, as London’s National Gallery documents in a new show, “Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries.”
It’s a good exhibition for fans of detective work, provided you can put up with an approach that treats paintings as scientific specimens rather than as works of art.