The objects of art criticism expertise include antiques and works of art, namely: monumental and easel painting, graphics, arts and crafts, architectural monuments, sculptures, small sculptures, musical instruments, musical literature; printed materials, audio and video recordings, photography.
Attribution of cultural property
Attribution (lat. Attributio - attribution) is a type of scientific activity for the assessment of cultural monuments in museums, scientific institutes, associated with determining the reliability, authenticity of a work of art, its author, place and time of creation, and it is carried out by a narrow specialist in this type of art. That is, the main activity of a specialist in attribution is aimed at disclosing and evaluating the above characteristics, in order to confirm the characteristics that are attributed to them. According to this definition, the attribution of jewelry acts as the establishment of the identity of all the characteristics of an object to its essential features.
Gemological examination
Gemological examination is a kind of soil science examination performed in order to establish the nature of minerals, including precious stones, the source of their origin, composition and production technology of their synthetic analogues and imitations.
Objects of mineralogical (gemological) expertise are natural faceted and uncut precious and semi-precious stones, their synthetic counterparts, imitations, semi-precious stones, stone products, rocks.
Art criticism expertise
Art expert examination is carried out in order to establish the presence or absence of evidence of the possibility of attributing a work to the heritage of one or another author, to determine the degree of preservation of the object, the presence or absence of restoration work, to determine whether it belongs to a certain period of time, as well as art expert examination will answer the question: is the object under study cultural, historical, scientific, artistic, archaeological, or other value.
Technological expertise
Studying the product, the expert describes it in detail, fixes all the features: design, constructive and technological. Determines whether the product meets the Specifications for its type, whether it has been repaired, whether its shape has changed, whether it has been subjected to any other influences. This examination is very important, because all its data will affect the properties of the product, its cost.
Assay examination
Assay examination of cultural property - the study of the metal from which the decoration is made. Does the assay mark, the nameplate, whether they are real, whether the assay mark corresponds to the true alloy composition of the product, all these questions must be answered by the assay examination.
Trassological examination
Trassological examination - determining the age of the product depends on the type of stamp and nameplate.
Identification expertise
The identification examination of antiques is a methodological knowledge of objects of identification, their physical form and aesthetic and historical content for belonging to a group of similar objects.
Identification expertise is carried out by accumulating data about an object in relation to a group of similar objects in type, style and content (time of creation, author, etc.). The data obtained are analyzed, compared with the features identified on other typical subjects, and on the basis of this, a final conclusion is made about the belonging of the subject, which represents a professional assessment of the revealed facts. This identification score may change in the process of revealing new facts obtained during the work on the identification object.
Examination of authenticity
Evaluating works of art and antiques, the expert, first of all, questions how the specified information in the marking, branding, accompanying documentation (if it concerns antiques or museum items) will correspond to its value and how to make sure that the specified characteristics (if they are all indicated) are true and are not falsified.
Assessment of cultural property
Appraisal examination of cultural property (works of art and antiques) - an examination carried out on behalf of the customer in order to establish the actual value of the object of appraisal.
The main purpose of the appraisal examination is to provide independent and objective information on the classification, nomenclature value of works of art and antiques and to calculate the appraised value of works of art and antiques.
Comprehensive research
Depending on the client's wishes, the structure of a comprehensive study of cultural values may include the following types of expertise: gemological, art history, traceology, identification, technological, assay, and authenticity expertise.
The main tasks of art history expertise are:
- attribution of the work (establishing the author of the work, the period of creation of the work, belonging to a particular school, etc.);
- determination of the artistic level, historical significance, cultural value and state of the work;
- determining the estimated or insured value of the work;
- determining the conformity of products to the requirements of legislation on the protection of public morality.
Indicative list of issues to be resolved:
- Is the subject submitted for research an original (author's work), a copy made on behalf of another author, or a copy made on behalf of the author?
- Who is the author of the artwork submitted for research?
- Was this work of art subject to restoration (fragment, etc.)?
- What is the value of the work of art that is being researched?
- Does this medium contain works that promote the cult of violence and cruelty?
- Is the work submitted for research authentic?
- Does the subject provided for research belong to cultural values of artistic, historical, ethnographic, scientific or other significance?
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