The Gentle Art of Faking
by Riccardo Nobili
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nobili, Riccardo, 1859-1939
- Title
- The Gentle Art of Faking A history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- N: Fine Arts
- Subject
- Forgery of antiquities
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 53638
- Release Date
- November 30, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE GENTLE ART OF FAKING — The New Art Library
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE GENTLE ART OF FAKING — Part I THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FAKING — CHAPTER I GREEKS AND ROMANS AS ART COLLECTORS
- 6.CHAPTER II COLLECTOMANIA IN ROME
- 7.CHAPTER III RAPACIOUS ROMAN COLLECTORS
- 8.CHAPTER IV ROME AS AN ART EMPORIUM
- 9.CHAPTER V INCREASE OF FAKING IN ROME
- 10.CHAPTER VI DECADENCE OF ART AND CONSEQUENT CHANGES
- 11.CHAPTER VII THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
- 12.CHAPTER VIII IMITATION, PLAGIARISM AND FAKING
- 13.CHAPTER IX COLLECTORS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- 14.CHAPTER X COLLECTING IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND
- 15.CHAPTER XI MAZARIN AS A COLLECTOR
- 16.CHAPTER XII SOME NOTABLE FRENCH COLLECTORS
- 17.Part II THE COLLECTOR AND THE FAKER — CHAPTER XIII COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE COLLECTOR’S FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
- 19.CHAPTER XV IMITATORS AND FAKERS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI THE ARTISTIC QUALITIES OF IMITATORS
- 21.CHAPTER XVII FAKERS, FORGERS AND THE LAW
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII THE FAKED ATMOSPHERE AND PUBLIC SALES
- 23.Part III THE FAKED ARTICLE — CHAPTER XIX THE MAKE-UP OF FAKED ANTIQUES
- 24.CHAPTER XX FAKED SCULPTURE, BAS-RELIEFS AND BRONZES
- 25.CHAPTER XXI FAKED POTTERY
- 26.CHAPTER XXII METAL FAKES
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- 28.CHAPTER XXIV VELVETS, TAPESTRIES AND BOOKS — CHAPTER XXV SUMMING UP
- 29.INDEX.
- 30.Transcriber’s Notes
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