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In the intricate world of art, where authenticity reigns supreme, the craft of faking art has evolved into a deceptive ...

Interviews with the Beltracchis and footage of Wolfgang working in his studio make up the bulk of the film. Birkenstock evidently spent years visiting the couple, first at their estates in Mèze in the ...

The most famous art forgery crime in history is the 1945 case of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, who was initially arrested for treason. He was accused of selling authentic works by Vermeer, the ...

Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple ...

Italian police have dismantled a pan-European forgery network accused of producing and distributing replica artworks by more than 30 artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Andy ...

PART ONE : The art of forgery -- PART TWO : Six Modern Masters -- What Is Belief? / Lothar Malskat -- What Is Authenticity? / Alceo Dossena -- What Is Authority? / Han van Meegeren -- What Is History?