Thread by @Stewart_Brookes

Let's take a look at Carla Rossi's claim that she didn't take the colour image of a miniature of St Mark from Peter Kidd's @mssprovenance blog. Kidd had pointed out (mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody…) that the only possible source of the colour image was from his site. [cont]
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@mssprovenance Rossi responded on Academia.edu that she "obtained a bw image" from the German dealer Hartung and "colourise[d] the black and white pictures using the "Colorize picture" application, as you can see on page 253 of my edition." [cont]
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@mssprovenance Even so, Rossi removed the colour image from her book, replacing it with the black-and-white image that she *claimed* had been supplied by Hartung. [cont]
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@mssprovenance Rossi stated that the use of a "Colorize picture" application meant "the colours of the Mark miniature were too unrealistic and garish, so we reverted to the version sent to us by Hartung". See Rossi's screenshot on Academia.edu below. [cont]
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@mssprovenance If we extract the images from Rossi's book (e.g. using tools.pdf24.org/en/extract-ima…), it turns out that the width of the image used by Rossi is 431 pixels. That's the same 431 pixels as that from Kidd's site. Suspicious, non? (The Hartung image is 650 pixels wide) [cont]
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@mssprovenance If you look closely at Image B below -- that Rossi claims is the "version sent to us by Hartung" -- then you'll see that there are traces of colour. It looks like Rossi lifted the colour image from Kidd's website and greyscaled it when she got caught. [cont]
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@mssprovenance And if you compare the images, you'll notice the blotches (or artefacts) match for Images B & C (Rossi's book & Kidd's site) and the image supplied by Hartung is different (see below, e.g. 1, 2, 4 and the top margin which is the same for Kidd & Rossi)
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@mssprovenance There seems zero doubt that Rossi lifted the image of the miniature of Mark from Kidd's site, denied it, & (ineptly) tried to cover her tracks. The RECEPTIO site says "Regarding the ridiculous accusations of plagiarism, let the readers of this edition judge". Ahem!
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@mssprovenance @donnermaps has very helpfully used a "colorise app" to colour the Hartung image, as Rossi claims to have done:

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@mssprovenance @donnermaps Here's @donnermaps colorised image with Rossi's so-called colorised image. To paraphrase Rossi (always good to cite your sources, right?), let the readers be the judge.
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