BrainBank: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It, Too Edition

I was browsing the internet at about nine o'clock, as I tend to be doing at nine o'clock on any given day, when I came across an amusing article. Apparently The Virgin and Child, by Francesco Francia, has existed in both the UK National Gallery and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh for some time now, with each museum insisting theirs was the genuine article. Experts agreed, however, that the London-based painting was legitimate.

Now however with the aid of some convoluted scientific procedure scientists have found traces of graphite on the London painting that disqualify it as a contender, meaning that art experts have been wrong all along.

I wonder what other famous paintings sitting around are actually artful forgeries? One has to admit, anyone that has the ability to produce a painting deemed more real than the original is a talented individual indeed.