Egyptian fakes : masterpieces that duped the art world and the experts who uncovered them /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fiechter, Jean-Jacques
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : Flammarion, [2009]
Edition:English-language ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Egyptomania, clever copies, and "travel souvenirs
  • The first quality fakes : the beautiful Tetisheri in the British Museum and other pastiches
  • Some masterpieces of Upper Egyptian forgeries
  • Fakes inundate the European market : Ludwig Borchardt's revelations
  • The "new schools" of fakes : Scultore Amatore and restoration/forgery in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
  • Oxan Aslanian, the master of Berlin
  • A new source of inspiration for forgers : the rediscovery of Amarna art
  • The Louvre, Amarna, and Art Deco
  • The Mansoor affair, or, The riddle of the lost sculptor's workshop
  • The scandal of the Necho scarabs
  • In the wake of Ludwig Borchardt and the techniques of modern detection
  • Forgery today : from the Nile to the Thames
  • Copies, restorations, and composite statues
  • The Djehuti dish : the "false fakes."