The Gentle Art of Faking

The Gentle Art of Faking

Riccardo Nobili

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may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are taken by the Collector, the Dealer, and the Faker, supported by minor but not less interesting characters, such as imitators, restorers, middlemen, et hoc genus omne, each of whom could tell more than one attractive tale.

The Gentle Art of Faking PREFACE

"Collectomania" may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are taken by the Collector, the Dealer, and the Faker, supported by minor but not less interesting characters, such as imitators, restorers, middlemen, et hoc genus omne, each of whom could tell more than one attractive tale.

In analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to speak, and his critic may perchance find some slight modicum of excuse for him. Beside him stand the Imitator, from whom the faker often originates, the tempter who turns the clever imitator into a faker, and the middleman who lures on the unwary collector with plausible tales.

It is not the object of this volume to study the Faker by himself, but to trace his career through the ages in his appropriate surroundings, and compare the methods adopted by him at various periods of history, so far as they may be obtained.

Ethically, there is a strict line drawn between the imitator and the forger, but in practice this line is by no means rigid. Many imitators place their goods before the public as imitations; others tacitly permit their work to be sold as genuinely antique, influenced no doubt by the fact that though possibly12 the imitation and the original may possess equal merit, the one is handicapped by modernity, the other is hallowed by age. The inexperienced and unwary collector is in most cases the innocent originator of fraud; if there were no buyer there would be no seller. Too often fashion leads folly, and so fictitious values are created, and as demand increases so, too, do the sources of supply, but unhappily they are frequently not legitimate.

Ville Marie,

Via Dante da Castiglione 3,

Florence.

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“may with some reason be looked upon as a comedy in which the leading parts are taken by the Collector, the Dealer, and the Faker, supported by minor but not less interesting characters, such as imitators, restorers, middlemen, et hoc genus omne, each of whom could tell more than one attractive tale.”
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PREFACE

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Part I THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FAKING CHAPTER I GREEKS AND ROMANS AS ART COLLECTORS

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CHAPTER II COLLECTOMANIA IN ROME

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CHAPTER III RAPACIOUS ROMAN COLLECTORS

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CHAPTER IV ROME AS AN ART EMPORIUM

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CHAPTER V INCREASE OF FAKING IN ROME

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CHAPTER VI DECADENCE OF ART AND CONSEQUENT CHANGES

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CHAPTER VII THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

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CHAPTER VIII IMITATION, PLAGIARISM AND FAKING

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CHAPTER IX COLLECTORS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

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CHAPTER X COLLECTING IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND

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CHAPTER XI MAZARIN AS A COLLECTOR

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CHAPTER XII SOME NOTABLE FRENCH COLLECTORS

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Part II THE COLLECTOR AND THE FAKER CHAPTER XIII COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS

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CHAPTER XIV THE COLLECTOR'S FRIENDS AND ENEMIES

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CHAPTER XV IMITATORS AND FAKERS

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CHAPTER XVI THE ARTISTIC QUALITIES OF IMITATORS

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CHAPTER XVII FAKERS, FORGERS AND THE LAW

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CHAPTER XVIII THE FAKED ATMOSPHERE AND PUBLIC SALES

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Part III THE FAKED ARTICLE CHAPTER XIX THE MAKE-UP OF FAKED ANTIQUES

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CHAPTER XX FAKED SCULPTURE, BAS-RELIEFS AND BRONZES

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CHAPTER XXI FAKED POTTERY

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CHAPTER XXII METAL FAKES

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CHAPTER XXIII MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

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CHAPTER XXIV VELVETS, TAPESTRIES AND BOOKS

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CHAPTER XXV SUMMING UP

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