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 ...

The following comments were adapted from a roundtable on Digital Humanities pedagogy at the 2018 Renaissance Society of America annual conference in New Orleans. Roundtable participants: Charles van den Heuvel, Rachel ...

Im Zentrum der folgenden Ausführungen steht eine augenscheinlich spätromanisch-protogotische Holzmadonna aus dem Augsburger Kunstauktionsmarkt (sog. Augsburger Madonna), welche die oberschwäbisch-spätromanische, in die ...

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art recently acquired a remarkable seventeenth-century German narwhal and ivory cup (fig. 1). It belongs to a group of at least sixteen ivory, narwhal tusk, and rhinoceros horn cups of ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...