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Author Helstosky, Carol, author.

Title Italian forgers : the art market and the weight of the past in modern Italy / Carol Helstosky
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024
©2024

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Description 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Benivieni affair -- Brokers of the past -- Law and deception -- Icilio Joni: the forger that wasn't -- The American collector and the modern antiquarian -- The Dossena affair -- The Italian predicament
Summary "Italian Forgers takes an unorthodox approach to a popular topic: art forgery. Based on original published sources as well as current and past scholarship, Italian Forgers focuses not on art forgery per se, but on the major forgery scandals in the context of a shifting art market operated by a number of Italians who fashioned a very sophisticated and self-conscious response to the constant and often intense demand for Italian objects."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2024)
Subject Art -- Forgeries -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Art -- Forgeries -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Forgery of antiquities -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Forgery of antiquities -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
Art -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
Art -- Economic aspects -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
ART / Forgeries
Art -- Economic aspects
Art -- Forgeries
Forgery of antiquities
The arts: general issues.
Art and Design.
Italy
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023032515
ISBN 9781501774591
150177459X
9781501774584
1501774581