The Director of the National Gallery called not to be ashamed of fakes
Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery in London, the UK's largest collection of Western European paintings, said he regretted that in his little museum of fakes: "I'm not worried for the reputation of the gallery, but it is important to know how smart the creators of fakes. He emphasized that no self-respecting collection of art should not be ashamed of forgery or get rid of them. This, he said, announcing a planned 2010 exhibit fabrications and incorrectly attributed the works: "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries" ("A careful study: fakes, mistakes and discoveries"), reports The Independent.
In the vaults of the National Gallery are very well-known imitation of Holbein's "Man and skull", the discovery of which in the middle of the XIX century caused such a scandal that the museum's director has resigned. Once regarded as a genuine work of Rembrandt's "Portrait of an old man in the chair" was a picture of the great circle of the Dutchman. In 1923, the gallery has bought a portrait of the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro (end of XV century), and only later discovered that the picture painted by modern paints and artificially aging technology. Moreover, the author did not try to fake that its image was like a Renaissance portraits of the Duke, and da Montefeltro written by him without the famous received in combat, dents on the nose.
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Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries