Saturday, June 23, 2007

Fakes and Forgeries


Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception is currently going on at the Bruce Museum in Greenwhich. The show features Western painting and sculpture forged and faked from all periods of art history. Forgery techniques are explored and revealed as are the techniques and steps used to detect these forgeries.

The image shown above is Han van Meegeren’s legendary forgery, Christ and His Disciples at Emmaus, in the style of Johannes Vermeer, is possibly the most famous forgery in the world.