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#forgeries — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forgeries, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Johns Hopkins Magazine: A medieval art form, digitized . “Already, two of the Stern Center’s world-renowned collections of early books have largely been digitized… One of these, Women of the Book, features 2,000-plus books and manuscripts about women dedicated to the life of the mind: nuns, female saints, healers, and miracle workers living between 1450 and 1800. Another, the Bibliotheca […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/24/johns-hopkins-magazine-a-medieval-art-form-digitized/

  2. Johns Hopkins Magazine: A medieval art form, digitized . “Already, two of the Stern Center’s world-renowned collections of early books have largely been digitized… One of these, Women of the Book, features 2,000-plus books and manuscripts about women dedicated to the life of the mind: nuns, female saints, healers, and miracle workers living between 1450 and 1800. Another, the Bibliotheca […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/24/johns-hopkins-magazine-a-medieval-art-form-digitized/

  3. Johns Hopkins Magazine: A medieval art form, digitized . “Already, two of the Stern Center’s world-renowned collections of early books have largely been digitized… One of these, Women of the Book, features 2,000-plus books and manuscripts about women dedicated to the life of the mind: nuns, female saints, healers, and miracle workers living between 1450 and 1800. Another, the Bibliotheca […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/24/johns-hopkins-magazine-a-medieval-art-form-digitized/

  4. Hyperallergic: Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?. “Scientists working with the nonprofit Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, for which I provide legal advice as an intellectual property attorney, have been collaborating for a decade on developing methods to do non-invasive testing of the works of Leonardo and other artists to assemble a ‘biome profile’ that would identify the artist.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/hyperallergic-can-an-artists-dna-help-detect-forgeries/

  5. I am endlessly amused by turn of the century #Byzantine enamel #forgeries made by someone who obviously saw "South Park" coming...
    📷
    1d‪Erin L. Thompson‬ ‪@artcrimeprof.bsky.social‬

  6. As part of #AprilFakesWeek learn about the lives of 'Makers & Fakers' like the infamous forger of prehistoric artefacts, Flint Jack in a #BehindTheScenes tour & hear how copies, replicas, casts and fakes 'make' museum collections. Sun 6 April, 12.30-16.00. bit.ly/4gTDXWn

    Pitt Rivers Museum
    @Pitt_Rivers #Fakes #forgeries

  7. Spotted a fair quantity of fake 1920s–30s wood engravings by contemporary forger Earl M. Washington (now in prison) at a shop in Dearborn, MI, priced at $50–125. He'd been at it for decades & first attracted negative attention from the Escher estate
    japecake @japecake #fakes #forgeries #artforgeries

  8. Police inundated with calls over #art #forgeries | Amid an ongoing police investigation of a Thessaloniki auction house for allegedly selling fake artworks, calls have flooded in from previous buyers, both domestic and international, willing to testify ekathimerini.com/news/1255824/

  9. Ancient Texts That Were FAKED

    A close look at some of the more interesting (and infamous) ancient texts that were discovered and then found out to be forgeries.

    #Video length: fifty eight minutes and twenty one seconds.

    youtube.com/watch?v=7fLsbEWrRv

    #Ancient #Texts #Fake #Forgeries #Antiquity #Antiquiodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons @archaeodons @antiquiodons

  10. Two men have been sentenced to jail in London for selling more than £2.6 million (around $3.2 million) in fake fine art attributed to Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso.

    artnews.com/art-news/news/behr

    @artnews #art #crime #fakes #forgeries #Dali #Picasso

  11. It’s a fake: Mysterious 280 million-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint - Enlarge / Discovered in 1931, Tridentinosaurus antiquus has now been fo... - arstechnica.com/?p=2003228 #tridentinosaurusantiquus #paleontology #archaeology #forgeries #science #fossils #geology

  12. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  13. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  14. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  15. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  16. There‘s a bunch of book thieves going around prestigious #libraries and swapping #Pushkin #FirstEditions for (so the library officials say) high quality facsimiles. The @stabi_berlin
    has been targeted , also national libraries in Poland and the Baltic states.
    It’s a wild story, and the forgers’ skills seem to be very remarkable.
    #artcrimes #russianliterature #forgeries #antiquarianbooks
    thetimes.co.uk/article/a79836a

  17. Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Sells for $3.9 Million

    A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage was auctioned by Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to ensure this one wasn’t forged or stolen.

    NY Times article (unlocked):
    nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/de

    #columbus #letters #thefts #forgeries #bookhistory

  18. #NewPaper #Paleontology #FossilTurtles #Forgeries

    Scheyer, T.M., Oliveira, G.R., Romano, P.S.R. et al. A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil. Swiss J Palaeontol 142, 6 (2023). doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-002

  19. Every 🤢fake provenance 🤢
    - for a forgery
    - or Holocaust-linked artwork
    - or looted antiquity
    written or published or commissioned by a museum is
    a 🤢falsification of history🤢 by an institution
    abusing the trust placed in it by the public.

    Yet, no effort has been made to track false provenances and the interconnected #networks of #authors, #funders, #publishers, and #disseminators.

    #ethics #museum #governance #fakenews #disinformation #art #culturalheritage #forgeries #histodon

  20. I wonder how long until we have AI-driven #robot #art #forgeries? I imagine (with some work) you could train a robot to imitate the brush strokes of the masters. #AI cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/

  21. Cuba Ransomware Gang Abused Microsoft Certificates to Sign Malware - The company has taken measures to mitigate the risks, but security researchers warn of a ... - wired.com/story/microsoft-cert #security/cyberattacksandhacks #security/securitynews #forgeries #security

  22. The excellent #Digital #Benin site includes a number of #Wikidata identifiers for people involved in the itineraries of the artworks.

    This is great for many reasons.

    One is: we can find information about them and their #networks.

    Another is: we can check for #intersections with Nazi-looted #art, #forgeries and #trafficking #digitalhumanities
    #DH

    Digital Benin also shows the different #roles people and organisations had in the transfer of the #African #artworks.

    digitalbenin.org/provenance#ro

  23. Physical print sent by the author and not available in digital format (at least that I can currently find.)

    This isn’t the sort of essay I was initially hoping for, but it does touch on the idea of forged church documents as a means of providing a power base for certain churches versus others as well as versus other leaders. Without an oral society with memory methods spread among various constituencies, the power structure was based solely on written (or forged) documents.

    #england #forgeries #history #peterborough

    https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/29/55784442/