The paper deals with the oddities and peculiarities of critical history of a bronze bust representing Francesco del Nero (1487−1563), papal treasurer in the pontificate of Clement VII de Medici. Formerly in the ...

Historical sources, such as the account books of Renaissance bankers offer valuable information about relationship between artists and commissioners. Yet, it is not easy to use such sources in identifying works of art and ...

Die Kopie in der niederländischen Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit ist ein großes, spannendes und momentan viel diskutiertes Feld. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen kleinen Einblick in die Antwerpener Kunstsammler-Szene im frühen 16. Jhd. ...

In the beginning of the 20th century new theories on the importance of fakes in art have appeared. Aesthetics, art history, culture sciences, sociology, economic and legal studies, interdisciplinary approaches and academic ...

Albrecht Dürers zahlreiche Selbstdarstellungen zeugen von der steten Bemühung des Nürnbergers, in seiner Kunst persönliche Präsenz zu wahren. Diesem Zwecke diente auch das wohlbekannte Dürer-Monogramm, welches der Künstler ...

The LANIAC (Laboratorio di analisi non invasive su opere d’arte antica, moderna e contemporanea) of the University of Verona (Italy) and the CAEM (Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna) of the University of Lleida (Spain), two ...

This paper delves into the techniques and procedures of forgers in order to analyze their productions. A large variety of methods are implemented: the reuse of original supports, the mixing of original parts with faked ...

In traditional Chinese art, copying masterpieces was widely practiced, the famous works existed in numerous versions through the ages when copies of copies, and copies of copies of copies (of copies) functioned as models ...

Der Text analysiert drei künstlerische Arbeiten aus dem Bereich der Dokumentation prekärer Arbeitsverhältnisse bzw. daraus resultierten Streiksituationen in Hinblick auf ihre spezifischen Modi der dokumentarischen Darstellungen ...

During the last years of the 16th c. the Venetian printing industry was still one of the major economic sectorsin the city, but production had dwindled to levels inferior to those of the middle years of the century because ...