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
Revolution, French, influence of the, 132
Rhodes’ pottery, 248
Riccio, bronzes of, 87, 101
Richelieu as a collector, 115
_Ricordi_ of Lorenzo Medici, 78
Ridolfi, Prof., 178
Rienzi, 71
Rinuccini, 78
Rochefort, Henri, 162, 214
Rolland, Mme., 150
Roman busts, imitations of, 90
Roman house, the, 48, 49
Roman, the, not a lover of art, 18
Romano, Giulio, 111
Rome: the home of the collectors, 18;
development of art, 21;
beginnings of private collection, 22;
fictitious art and fraud, 24;
freakish prices, 25;
_septæ_, 28;
public auctions, 28;
an emporium of art, 44;
Roman house, 48;
faking and copying, 59;
artistic life, 60
Rosary, Mazarin’s valuable, 119
Rossini, 286
Rothschilds, the, 152, 235, 260, 269
Rovertet, 107
Rugs, Oriental, 293
_Sacrarium_, the, 49
St. Martin de Tours, monk of, 66
Saitaphernes, tiara of, 277
Sales of art collections, 128
Sales and auctions, 208
_Salle Lebrun_, the, 132
Salting collection, the, 191
Sanson, Charles, the executioner, a collector, 116
Sansovino, Jacopo, 89
Sardonyx, counterfeited, 58
Satire, on collecting, 125
_Satyricon_, the, 47
Sauval, 110
Savonarola, 83
_Sbullettare_, 186n.
Scaling of terra-cotta, 186
Scarampi, Cardinal, 73, 74
Scaurus, 45;
his atrium, 49
Scientific and artistic pursuits, 137
Scopas, 46
Seneca and art, 20;
collectors, 32;
bibliomaniacs, 50;
veneered furniture, 55
_Septæ_, the, 28, 29
Servilia, 47
Servilius, 46
Sèvres, museum at, 248
Shaw, Bernard, 142
Shaw, Quincy, 31, 141
Shields, story of the three, 271
Siena imitators, 191
_Sigillaria_, the, 31
Signatures and monograms, 193, 208, 231
Signorili, _Descriptio urbia Romæ_ of, 69
Silver, artistic, during the French Revolution, 275
Silver, colour and tone of, 276
Silver marks, 276
Silver work, 274
Silver, wrought, rage for, in Rome, 25
Sisinande, 56
Sixteenth-century art, 101
Slang, art dealers’, 159
Sleeping Cupid, the, 89
Smuggler, the, 171
Sogliani, 111
Solvents used in restoring pictures, 227
Specialist, the, 138
Spoon, Jacob, 127
_Sposalizio_, Correggio’s, 118
Squarcione, Francesco, 71
Staedel Museum, the, 96
Stamp-collecting, 299
Stanley, H. M., 142
Statues, 35, 36, 37
_Stemmata_, 49
Strongylion, bronze by, 40
Strozzi, Filippo, 101
_Stucco duro_ imitations, 237
Suetonius, 29;
Cæsar, 43, 212
Suggestion, influence of, 177
Sulla, 22, 31, 36
Supino, Prof., 178
Symbolic art, 63
_Tabulæ auctionariæ_, 213
Tanagras, faked, 235
Tane’s _Philosophie de l’Art_, 304
Tapestries, 49, 291
Tardieu and Sanson, 116
“Tazza Famese,” the, 80
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