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 dayNobili, Riccardo
History
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
Nobili, Riccardo
Art -- Forgeries; Collectors and collecting; Forgery of antiquities
Bookbindings, 296
Book collectors, Roman, 49
Books, 294
Bracciolini, Poggio, 75
Brass articles, patina for, 265
Bric-à-brac, 130
Bric-à-brac shops in Rome, 29
Brienne, 119
Briesco, Andrea, 87, 88
Bronze and other metals, to give tone and colour to, 264
Bronzes, 30, 89, 238
Brunelleschi, 75, 83
Brunellesco, 71
Brunswick Museum, the, 91
Brutus as a collector, 40
Brutus of Michelangelo, 103
Buffon, 131
Bullant, Jean, 92
Cafaggiolo, 249
Calamis, 46, 59
“Calcedonio,” Niccoli’s, 73
Calchar, 100
Caligula, 29
Caligula as an auctioneer, 212
Callot’s bad etching, 127
Camelio, Vittore, 91
Cameos, counterfeit, 58
Candelabras, 30
Canvas for restoring paintings, 229
Capodimonte factory, the, 256
_Cappuccino_, 282
Cardinal di San Giorgio, 82, 89
Carncades, 41
Carracci, “The Deluge” by, 120
Castellani sale, the, 213
Castiglione, 103
Catalogues, first printed, 116
Cathegus, 25
Catherine de Medici, 110
Cavenaghi, 167
Cavino, 91
Cellini, 103
Ceroplastics, 244
Cesnola collection, 248
Charles the Bald, Bible and Psalter of, 66
Charles VI, catalogue of, 68
Chasles, M., 199
Cheese as a vehicle for colour, 230
Chemistry’s aid to faking, 263
Chilperic, a collector, 65
Christian and pagan subjects, 96
Christianity and art, 63
_Chronique Scandaleuse_, 130
Chrysogon, 25
Chrysoloras, Emanuele, 72
Claywork fakes, 235
Cicero and Art, 19;
imitation and fraud, 24;
pubilc auctions, 28;
a collector of doubtful taste, 40, 41;
Chrysogon, 45;
_citrus_ tables, 54;
public sales, 211
Cinquecento art, 102; velvet, 289
Cinquecento collectors, 102
Ciriaco d’Ancona, 71
_Citrus_ or _thuja_, 54;
qualities, 55
_Citrus_ tables, craze for, 25, 54
Clarinus, 32
Classification, 138
“Cleaning,” 216
Client and art market, 31
Clodion’s clay groups, 208, 238
Clodius, 31
Clotaire, a collector, 65
Clovis, a collector, 65
_Craquelage_, on pottery, 255
Cressy, influence of the battle of, 110
_Crieur_, the, 28
Crozat, 129
Coaches, Commodus’ collection of, 212
Codrus, the needy collector, 32
Coin counterfeiting, 67, 92
Cola di Rienzi, 69
Collection, a form of banking, 64
Collector, the: the home of the, 18;
and satirists, 32;
types of, 34;
rapacious, 37, 38;
ultra-modern, 141
Collectors and collections, 135
Collector’s touch, the, 146
Colouring marble, 242
Commerce and art collecting, 130
Commodus’ effects, sale of, 212
Concini, 123
Condivi, 90
Connoisseurship and erudition, 138
Conquerors as collectors of art treasures, 22
Constantine, 18, 63
Constantinople and Oriental arms, 267
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