The Gentle Art of Faking
Riccardo Nobili
Gelesen von Jordan Watts





IIn 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. (from the Preface) (10 hr 49 min)
Kapitel
Preface | 3:20 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Part I: The Birth and Development of Faking – Greeks and Romans as Art Collecto… | 15:49 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Collectomania in Rome | 30:56 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Rapacious Roman Collectors | 19:34 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Rome as an Art Emporium | 32:18 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Increase of Faking in Rome | 13:29 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Decadence of Art and Consequent Changes | 11:22 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
The Renaissance Period | 38:21 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Imitation, Plagiarism, and Faking | 40:37 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Collectors of the Sixteenth Century | 14:11 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Collecting in France and England | 13:25 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Mazarin as a Collector | 34:13 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Some Notable French Collectors | 9:44 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Part II: The Collector and the Faker – Collectors and Collections | 28:48 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
The Collector's Friends and Enemies | 31:54 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Imitators and Fakers | 33:08 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
The Artistic Qualities of Imitators | 29:09 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Fakers, Forgers and the Law | 28:27 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
The Faked Atmosphere and Public Sales | 38:52 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Part III: The Faked Article – The Make-up of Faked Antiques | 18:25 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Faked Sculpture, Bas-reliefs and Bronzes | 24:04 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Faked Pottery | 37:34 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Metal Fakes | 33:23 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Wood Work and Musical Instruments | 16:15 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Velvets, Tapestries and Books | 30:39 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |
Summing Up | 21:54 | Gelesen von Jordan Watts |