Forgery, Falsification & Theft of Artworks

Not only Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring utilized the occupation of France during the Second World War to procure artworks for their collections — ...

The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger‘Van Meegeren's story is fascinating a...

Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which st...

The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. a...

The illicit traffic of art is an important problem that affects modern life all over the world. This work addresses the issue using the showcase...

Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Felicia...

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form,...

The essays contained in this volume address issues surrounding the use, dissemination, and reception of copies and even deliberate forgeries within...

A globetrotting Gold Rush heiress. An awkward Paris schoolmaster. A celebrated French actor. And a museum of history and art in California’s Centra...

Spektakuläre Restitutionen hochpreisiger Kunstwerke haben in der Öffentlichkeit den Eindruck erweckt, bei den in der NS-Zeit den jüdischen Bürger/-...

In the late afternoon of Sunday, 20 August 1911, three men strolled into the Louvre museum in Paris. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid...

Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937) war einer der bedeutendsten Kunsthändler seiner Zeit. Werke von Paul Klee oder Pablo Picasso hingen in seinen Galerie...

Galileo’s O, Volume III, is perhaps without peer in the history of the book. In this work, historians in various fields revise the results they pre...

First comprehensive study of Italy's "art police", an organisation devoted to protecting cultural artefacts. Renowned for their rigorous investiga...

In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted - and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author ...

The conclusion discusses specific steps that could be taken to halt the plunder. This text examines why the African past, namely its art and antiq...

Why was the Renaissance also the golden age of forgery?Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attrib...

Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections ...

Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To ...