True or False?: Amazing Art Forgeries

by Ann Waldron

Book Overview

Presents the stories behind some of the world's most notable cases of art forgery. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803872208
• ISBN13: 9780803872202
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

The history of fakes in the art world

This is an older book, but a good one! If you are interesting in the history of famous art fakes, this book covers everything from statues of antiquities faked by Michaelangelo (of all people), the famous forger David Stein (who did time in Sing-Sing .) The methods of the forgers (from Michaelangelo burying a statue of Cupid to give it a patina) to how science detects the fakes (pigments, canvas, paper) is all covered. This is a very fascinating read about art history and criminal history combined. The author is a journalist who really gets the facts and writes excitingly as well. A classic.