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Published online 22 November 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041122-3
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Computers confront the art experts
Automated method seems to spot forgeries as well as a connoisseur does.
In Michael Frayn's novel Headlong , philosopher Martin Clay believes he has found a priceless painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in his neighbour's farmhouse. The plot follows Clay's desperately clandestine attempts to authenticate the work.
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