by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Art Word, Fakes
If BRAFA (Brussels, 29/1/22, 5/2/23), being the first art and antiques fair of the year, could help test the waters for the state of the art of the sector, the result would be only moderately positive. The theme chosen for this year edition was Art Nouveau, since in...
by admin | Jan 26, 2023 | Art Word, Authentications & attributions, Cutural Heritage, Fakes, International Cooperation
Whose are the works kept in museums? Whose is the bust of Nefertiti, or as in Germany they like to call it, their “Mona Lisa”? “All the cultural assets from other regions of the world do not belong to us, they are here illegally,” said in a interview...
by admin | Oct 3, 2022 | Conferences, Cutural Heritage, Fakes
The “VERO-FALSO” (TRUE-FALSE) conference, organized by Art & Dossier for Giunti, and Treccani, as part of TourismA, on one of the most recently debated topics, was an extraordinary success, enriched by the presence of high-profile speakers. It opened with a...
by admin | Oct 2, 2022 | Art Word, Conferences, Cutural Heritage, Discoveries, Exhibitions, Fakes
The richness of the Florence Biennale of Antiques this year enchanted us. In Florence we are used to being surrounded by beauty, but the comparison with other antiques fairs that have been held around the world and especially in Europe, this year is stunning. The...
by admin | Oct 2, 2022 | Authentications & attributions, Cutural Heritage, Discoveries, Fakes
The reason why Galileo Galilei, the famous Italian mathematician and astronomer, was condemned by the Church was a book, not the telescope. But even before the book, it was a letter to Benedetto Castelli, his pupil and close friend, to get him into trouble. A...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Authentications & attributions, Cutural Heritage, Exhibitions, Fakes, Studies and Projects
An X-ray brings out a figure from “chaos” Jackson Pollock is widely known as one of the greatest exponents of “action painting”. Indeed, after a brief initial period in which he made art on traditional canvases, on easel, he soon arrived to dripping, i.e....
