Fakes are increasingly relevant, because of their financial and cultural implications. Museums and cultural institutions are not exempt, on the contrary, the news is that there is tendency in their coming out, showing and discussing their fake collections, finally...
Often between one hypothesis or the other the difference is millions euros and the reputations of scholars and galleries. Reasons enough to arouse the curiosity of even a non-specialist public and become popular news. However, it requires a certain courage to hold an...
There are names that are famous today and are considered immortal, such as Caravaggio orโฆ Vermeer. However, some of them weren’t considered geniuses at all during their lifetime, incluing Vermeer (!). There are also painters who, instead, hardly anyone knows...
Among the Italian archaeological finds recovered by the Carabinieri in America, many could be fakes. A museum is ready for the others Anna Pelagotti ยซInvestigation into art never endsยป, said General Molinese, stressing the importance of increasingly sophisticated...
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...
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”? โAll the cultural assets from other regions of the world do not belong to us, they are here illegally,โ said in a interview...
