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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10239195, member: 2844&quot;]It is a lot of hot air, especially if you look at their findings. Their claims are not good advertising for the LMI Group.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from their own site:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A hair was found embedded in the painted surface of the canvas. Exhaustive testing and research by a team from one of the world’s leading scientific laboratories yielded proof that the hair is human and male. Its degraded state thwarted a quest to explore potential DNA matching with descendants of van Gogh.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-dna-found-on-elimar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-dna-found-on-elimar" rel="nofollow">https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-dna-found-on-elimar</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are countless labs that do DNA-research and matching. They just go about their job without being called &quot;one of the world’s leading scientific laboratories&quot;.</p><p>And &quot;the hair is human and male&quot;. Wow, van Gogh was human and male!!!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Good thing the hair was too degraded to be matched, because it wouldn&#039;t be a match.</p><p>Btw, van Gogh also tended to lick his brushes, so there could be DNA in the paint. I don&#039;t know if any lab can isolate DNA from such a difficult source yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Our findings align with the SAFA report, which recorded an average thread density of 10 x 10 threads per cm across seven randomly selected and measured locations. Literature on other van Gogh paintings, such as <i>Sunflowers</i>, shows denser thread counts, with measurements of 11.5 x 17.2 threads per cm.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-elimar-canvas-weave" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-elimar-canvas-weave" rel="nofollow">https://www.lmigroupintl.com/project-highlights/analyzing-the-elimar-canvas-weave</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So not the same thread count as on van Gogh&#039;s &#039;Sunflowers&#039;. Of course he painted several Sunflower paintings, so which one? Or do they all have the same thread count, whereas this &quot;Elimar&quot; painting has a different thread count.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course the van Gogh Museum says &quot;Elimar&quot; is not by van Gogh. Need I say more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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