The Gentle Art of Faking / A history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times up to the present day

by Riccardo Nobili

INDEX.

• Adamo da Brescia, counterfeiter of coins, [67]
• Adventures of a Bric-à-brac Hunter, [144]
• Agar’s, Mme., collection of dolls, [291]
• Agesilas, [21]
• Aglæphon, [25]
• Agrippa as an art lover, [31]
• Alberti, [86]
• Alcohol as a solvent, [227]
• Alexander the Great, [37]
• Alluye, castle of, [92]
• Altar piece, Rothschild’s faked, [262]
• Amateur marchand, the, [117]
• Amber varnish, [228]
• Ambras collection, the, [87]
• American collector, the, [141]
• Andirons, story of the, [305]
• Andrea da Foiano, [79]
• Andrea del Sarto, [99]
• Andreoli, Maestro Giorgio, [250]
• Anne of Austria, [123]
• Anonimo Morelliano, the, [98]
• Antiquary, old and modern, the, [143], [153]
• Antique, passion for the, [71]
• Antiques, the collection of, in Italy, [82]
• Apelles, [20]
• Apollo and Marsyas, [94]
• Apollo, Sulla’s statue of, [36]
• Apollo, temple of, at Delphi, [23], [61]
• Apollo, the golden, [18]
• Aponius Saturninus, prætor, [29]
• Archæological suggestion, [160]
• Aretino, Pietro, [117]
• Aristotle, [18]
• Aristotle, bas-relief of, [91]
• Armour, faked, [269]
• Arms, the imitation of, [267]
• Art collecting, spread of, in Europe, [110]
• Art critic, the, [160]
• Art, influence of Greek and Roman, [83]
• Art in Rome, [20]
• Art museums in Rome, [61]
• Art sales, [128]
• Artist and erudite, [140]
• Artistic war booty, [21]
• Artists as connoisseurs, [288]
• Artists at Rome, status of, [20]
• Aspetti, Tiziano, [98]
• Athens, [18]
• Atria auctionaria, [28], [212]
• Atrium, the, [48]
• Atticus, [40]
• Auction room, atmosphere of the, [214]
• Augustus and Vedius Pollio, [52]
• Autographs, forged, [200], [298]
• Baldinucci, [225]
• Barberini, Cardinal, [118]
• Barbizet Brothers, [252]
• Barguette, la, [110]
• Barocco, the, [113]
• Bas-reliefs, bronze, [91], [235]
• Basant, [131]
• Basilini, [147]
• Bastianini, [182], [188]
• Belli, Valerio, [98], [100]
• Bellini, [100]
• Beniviene, Girolamo, Bastianini’s bust of, [183]
• Biblical subjects, [102]
• Bibliomaniacs, Roman, [50]
• Biographie Universelle of M. Weiss, [115]
• Bisticci, V. da, [92]
• “Black Band,” the, [171], [180], [219]
• Boethus, [30]
• Boiss, Mme., [209]
• Bolides, faking, [300]
• Bonafedi, Signor, [185]
• Bonnaffé, Edmond, [108], [112], [149], [193]
• Bookbindings, [296]
• Book collectors, Roman, [49]
• Books, [294]
• Bracciolini, Poggio, [75]
• Brass articles, patina for, [265]
• Bric-à-brac, [130]
• Bric-à-brac shops in Rome, [29]
• Brienne, [119]
• Briesco, Andrea, [87], [88]
• Bronze and other metals, to give tone and colour to, [264]
• Bronzes, [30], [89], [238]
• Brunelleschi, [75], [83]
• Brunellesco, [71]
• Brunswick Museum, the, [91]
• Brutus as a collector, [40]
• Brutus of Michelangelo, [103]
• Buffon, [131]
• Bullant, Jean, [92]
• Cafaggiolo, [249]
• Calamis, [46], [59]
• “Calcedonio,” Niccoli’s, [73]
• Calchar, [100]
• Caligula, [29]
• Caligula as an auctioneer, [212]
• Callot’s bad etching, [127]
• Camelio, Vittore, [91]
• Cameos, counterfeit, [58]
• Candelabras, [30]
• Canvas for restoring paintings, [229]
• Capodimonte factory, the, [256]
• Cappuccino, [282]
• Cardinal di San Giorgio, [82], [89]
• Carncades, [41]
• Carracci, “The Deluge” by, [120]
• Castellani sale, the, [213]
• Castiglione, [103]
• Catalogues, first printed, [116]
• Cathegus, [25]
• Catherine de Medici, [110]
• Cavenaghi, [167]
• Cavino, [91]
• Cellini, [103]
• Ceroplastics, [244]
• Cesnola collection, [248]
• Charles the Bald, Bible and Psalter of, [66]
• Charles VI, catalogue of, [68]
• Chasles, M., [199]
• Cheese as a vehicle for colour, [230]
• Chemistry’s aid to faking, [263]
• Chilperic, a collector, [65]
• Christian and pagan subjects, [96]
• Christianity and art, [63]
• Chronique Scandaleuse, [130]
• Chrysogon, [25]
• Chrysoloras, Emanuele, [72]
• Claywork fakes, [235]
• Cicero and Art, [19];
• imitation and fraud, [24];
• pubilc auctions, [28];
• a collector of doubtful taste, [40], [41];
• Chrysogon, [45];
• citrus tables, [54];
• public sales, [211]
• Cinquecento art, [102]; velvet, [289]
• Cinquecento collectors, [102]
• Ciriaco d’Ancona, [71]
• Citrus or thuja, [54];
• qualities, [55]
• Citrus tables, craze for, [25], [54]
• Clarinus, [32]
• Classification, [138]
• “Cleaning,” [216]
• Client and art market, [31]
• Clodion’s clay groups, [208], [238]
• Clodius, [31]
• Clotaire, a collector, [65]
• Clovis, a collector, [65]
• Craquelage, on pottery, [255]
• Cressy, influence of the battle of, [110]
• Crieur, the, [28]
• Crozat, [129]
• Coaches, Commodus’ collection of, [212]
• Codrus, the needy collector, [32]
• Coin counterfeiting, [67], [92]
• Cola di Rienzi, [69]
• Collection, a form of banking, [64]
• Collector, the: the home of the, [18];
• and satirists, [32];
• types of, [34];
• rapacious, [37], [38];
• ultra-modern, [141]
• Collectors and collections, [135]
• Collector’s touch, the, [146]
• Colouring marble, [242]
• Commerce and art collecting, [130]
• Commodus’ effects, sale of, [212]
• Concini, [123]
• Condivi, [90]
• Connoisseurship and erudition, [138]
• Conquerors as collectors of art treasures, [22]
• Constantine, [18], [63]
• Constantinople and Oriental arms, [267]
• Copyists in Rome, [59]; Greek, [59]
• Corinthian bronze, [30], [51], [239]
• Cornelius Nepos’ statuette of Hercules, [37]
• Corplet, Alfred, [252]
• Correggio, the Marsyas and the Antiope by, [119]
• Correr Museum, [91]
• Corvinus, Mathias, [96]
• Cosimo I, [104]
• Costantini, Prof., [178]
• Costumes and dress, [290]
• Coulanges, [124]
• Counterfeit coining, [67]
• Counterfeiting, imitation, and forgery in Rome, [58]
• Courajod, Louis, [84], [92]
• Courtier, the, in Rome, [28]; modern, [164]
• Couvreur, [147]
• Curieux, meaning of, [136]
• Custom House officials, [179]
• Cut glass, [260]
• Dagobert, [65]
• Damascening, [270]
• Damophilus, [21], [43]
• David, statuette by Michelangelo, [108]
• Davillier collection, the, [90], [95], [108], [140]
• Dazzi, the Italian dealer, [179]
• d’Aunale, Duc, [110]
• de Bassiano, [91]
• d’Este, Isabella, [80]
• de Genlis, Mme., [136]
• de la Porte, Armand-Charles, [120]
• de Limeville, Sieur, [127]
• de Sévigné, Mme., [125]
• d’Oiron, faience, [109]
• Dealers, traders and shopkeepers, [154]
• Death masks, [92]
• Deceptive surroundings, [210]
• Della Robbia, imitations of, [250]
• Delorme, Philibert, [92]
• Delphi, [17]
• Demasippus, [25]
• Demmin, [251], [273]
• Derutha, [249]
• Devers, Joseph, [250]
• di Banco, Antonio, [84]
• di mattonella, [156]
• Didius Julianus, [212]
• Dolls and toys, [290]
• Donatello, [71], [83], [84], [86]
• Donatello’s puttino, [197]
• Dondi, [71]
• Dreyfus, G., [91]
• Drouot, Hotel, [214]
• Duchie, Jacques, collection of, [69]
• Dyes for marble, [243]
• Eclectic and specialist, [138], [140]
• Ecouen, castle of, [92]
• Electrum, Helen’s cup of, [18]
• Enamels, faked, [259], [260]
• England, rise of the passion for collecting in, [110]
• English furniture, [283]
• Ennius, [22]
• Epitrapezios, the, [36]
• Ereinteur, the, [217]
• Eros, the tearful collector, [33]
• Estienne, H., [109], [112]
• Estienne, R., dictionary of, [136]
• Etchings, margins for, [232]
• Etruscan pottery, [248]
• Eudel, Paul, [180], [199], [203], [238], [273], [278], [295]
• Evander Aulanius, [60]
• Évangéliaire, a rare, [66]
• Evelyn, John, [115]
• Ex-voto objects, [290]
• Exhedra, [49]
• Expert, the, [162]
• Fabius Maximus, [19]
• “Fabius Pictor,” [20]
• Faked atmosphere, the, [207]
• Faked reputation, the, [220]
• Faker, the, [194]
• Faker, the jovial, [202]
• Fakers, the aristocracy of, [88]
• “Faking the milieu,” [209]
• Faking in Rome, [27], [57]
• “Faustina antica,” Mantegna’s, [81]
• Filarete, [86]
• Firminius, [31]
• Florence, National Museum, [91]
• Flute player, the, [88]
• Fontainebleau, school of, [112]
• Forgeries, [153]
• Forni, [230]
• Fortunatus, [65]
• Fortuny, Mariano, [268]
• Forzetta, Oliver, [69]
• France and art collecting, [107]
• France, art in, [112]
• France, seventeenth-century art in, [114]
• Frankfurt, fair of, [109]
• Frederick II, Duke of Mantua, [66], [99]
• Freppa, [182]
• Friuli, Marquis of, [66]
• Fronde, the, [119]
• Fulvius Nobilior, [21]
• Furniture, faking, [167], [279]
• Gaillon, castle of, [87]
• Gegania and Clesippus, [29]
• Gellianus the auctioneer, [213]
• German-made arms, [267]
• Gersaint, [131], [148], [309]
• Ghiacceti, Luigi, [110]
• Ghiberti, Lorenzo, [85], [94], [100]
• Gilded bronze, [241]
• Gilles Corrozet, [111]
• Ginori’s china works, [256]
• Ginsburg, Dr., [205]
• Giovanni Tornabuoni, [80]
• Girardon, [40]
• Giuliano da Sangallo, [80]
• Giustiniani, [248]
• Gladius Rogieri, the, [273]
• Glass, faked, [259]
• Glazes for pottery, [255]
• Glyptography, [79]
• Go-between, the, [164]
• Godescal, monk, [66]
• Gold products, spurious, [277]
• Gorgas, [21], [43]
• Gouffier, Claude, [109]
• Græco-Roman pottery, [247]
• Græeculi delirantes, [20]
• Gratianus, [31]
• Greek copyists, [59]
• Greeks, the, as art collectors, [17]
• Green-bronze lacquer for metal, [263]
• Green or brown-green patina, [265]
• Green patina, [266]
• Grolier, [107]
• Gubbio, [249]
• Guillebert de Metz, [69]
• Gymnasium of the Areopagus, [17]
• Hall, Major H. Bing, [144]
• Hannibal, [37]
• Hercules and Antæus, [88]
• Hercules of Lysippus, [19]
• “Hercules Musagetes,” [22]
• Hercules, statuette of, [36]
• Heius of Messina, [49]
• Henry II faience, [252]
• Hispano-Moresque pottery, [249]
• Holland, collections in, [128]
• Horace, [25];
• the crieur, [28], [32];
• book collecting, [50];
• patina, [51]
• Huber, Dr. L., [131]
• Imbert, [141]
• Imitation and fraud in Rome, [24]
• Imitations, contemporaneous, [232]
• Imitations by noted factories, [256]
• Imitator, the, [170]
• Imitators and copyists, [59]
• Impasto painting, [230]
• Imperator Caldusius, [92]
• Impruneta clay, [187]
• Inlaid work on furniture, [282]
• Inscriptions, [93]
• Iron work, [266]
• Isotta Atti, [86]
• Italian artists, versatility of, [86]
• Italy, collections in, in the fifteenth century, [70]
• Italy, exportation laws, [179]
• Italian faience, imitations of, [250]
• Itinerarium Galliæ, by Just Zinzerling, [115]
• Ivory work, [244]
• Jabach, the dealer, [115], [123]
• Jests, [160]
• Jewellery, old, [278]
• Juba, King of Numidia, [212]
• Julius Cæsar, [21], [31];
• a specialist, [42]
• Julius, Prætor, [60]
• Jupiter, colossal statue of, in the Louvre, [39]
• Jupiter, head of, [79]
• Jupiter Olympicus, temple of, [21]
• Jupiter, temple of, in Elis, [23]
• Justinian, digest of, [63]
• Juvenal, Codrus, [33];
• Tongilius, [34];
• Licinius, [34];
• precious goblets, [52]
• Krieg, [248]
• La Bruyère, [124], [140]
• La Rochefoucauld, [195]
• Lamberti, Nicolo di Piero, [84]
• Laocoön, the, [104]
• Laws against exportation, [172]
• Lebroc, [209]
• Lequesne, M., [184]
• Les Collections des Medicis, [74]
• Lescot, [126]
• Libraries at Athens, [18]
• Licinius the nervous collector, [34]
• Liste anonyme des curieux, [115]
• Livy, [61]
• Lorenzo, il Magnifico, [75], [77], [78]
• Louis XI and the miraculous ring, [78]
• Louis XIII as a collector, [122]
• Louis XIV as a collector, [39], [123]
• Louvre, the, [40], [41], [92], [96], [120], [122], [187]
• Lovesque, [141]
• Lucian, on Roman tourist guides, [62], [307]
• Lucretius, candelabra, [30]
• Lucullus, [60]
• Lustre work, [250]
• Lyndon, Minerva’s temple at, [18]
• Lysippus, statue of Hercules, by, [36]
• Machiavelli, [102]
• Magliabechi, [307]
• Maillet, M. A., [201]
• Malachite, kind of patina, [265]
• Malatesta’s temple of love, [86]
• Manheim, connoisseur, [54], [261]
• Mantegna and Isabella d’Este, [81]
• Maquilleur, the, [216]
• Marcellus, [19]
• Marcus Agrippa, [43]
• Marcus Aurelius as an auctioneer, [212]
• Marcus Aurelius, statuette of, [97]
• Marguerite of Antioch, [39]
• Mark Antony as a collector, [22], [31];
• rapacity, [38], [39];
• Corinthian bronze, [51]
• Marks of noted pottery factories, [258]
• Marks on steel, [274]
• Marostica, [67]
• Marsigli, Luigi, [72]
• Martial, [26];
• the septæ, [31];
• Milonius, [32];
• Clarinus and Paullus, [32];
• Eros and Mamurra, [33];
• statuette of Hercules, [36], [213]
• Marzi, Ezio, Prof., [191]
• Mazarin as a collector, [115], [117], [120]
• Mecherino, [106]
• Médailles insolentes, [128]
• Medals, forgers and imitators of antique, [100]
• Medals, patina for old, [265]
• Medici collection, fate of the, [74]
• Medicis, the, [72];
• Piero, [75];
• Cosimo, [75], [104];
• Giulio, [77];
• Ottaviano, [99];
• Alexander, [101];
• Lorenzino, [101]
• Mediæval collections, [64]
• Mégisserie, the, [111]
• Meissen china, booming, [151]
• Meleager, statuette of, [89]
• Melpomene, colossal, in the Louvre, [41]
• Memoires de Brienne, [127]
• Mettere il bavaglino, [157]
• Mexican idols, [246]
• Michelangelo, [89], [102], [103], [111]
• Michelangelo’s David, [108]
• Michelozzo, [75]
• Milanesi, [100]
• Milizia, [226]
• Millin, [136]
• Milonius, [32]
• Miniature work, [232]
• Miniatures in Rome, [30]
• Mino, [91]
• Minor collections, [299]
• Moabite pottery, forged, [205]
• Modena Museum, [91]
• Moderno, [97]
• Molière’s works, [294]
• Montaigne, [108]
• Moreau, artist in iron, [266]
• Morelli, [147]
• Mosaic, a Roman, [46]
• Muffled glaze, [251]
• Mummius, L., [19]
• Munich Museum, the, [185]
• Murrhines, [52]
• Murrhines, prices paid for, [25]
• Museum of Arezzo, [92]
• Museum of French monuments, [92]
• Museum of Munich, [92]
• Museums and forgeries, [153]
• Musical instruments, [284]
• Mustard pot, find of a, [161]
• Myron, [39]
• Mys, bronzes of, [30]
• Napoleon as an art collector, [132]
• Natali’s imitations, [182], [185], [190]
• National Museum, Florence, [91]
• Nero, [18], [46]
• Newton and Pascal, [201]
• Niccoli, Niccolo, [71], [92]
• Nicomedes, King, [37]
• Nieuwerkerque, [182]
• Nolives, [182]
• Nonius, [38]
• Numismatists, [92]
• Octavianus, a collector of Corinthian bronze, [51]
• Oeci, [49]
• Orlandini, Prof., [192]
• Orleans, Duke of, [129]
• Oriental pottery, [247], [249]
• Oriental weapons, [267]
• Over-restoration, [234]
• Paduan School, [91], [196]
• Pagan art, the worship of, [85]
• Painting, imitations in, [99]
• Painting, transformed, [168]
• Paintings, restoring, [225]
• Palazzo, Riccardi, the, [75]
• Palissy, [251]
• Palladium, Niccoli’s, [97]
• Paolo Veronese, [102]
• Paris, art sales in, [128]
• Parvenu collector, the, [82]
• Pascal and Newton, [201]
• Pasiteles, [21]
• Pastels and water colours, [232]
• Patinæ, [51];
• bronze, [238];
• marble, [241]
• Paul Potter, [232]
• Paullus, [32]
• Pausias, [42]
• Perenzolo, [69]
• Peristyle, the, [48]
• Perronet de Granvelle, [39]
• Pertinax, public auction by, [212]
• Peruvian pottery, [246], [248]
• “Peter Funk,” [222]
• Petrarch, [71]
• Petronius’ collection of Murrhines, [54]
• Petronius and art, [20], [26]
• Phœdrus, on faking, [59]
• Phidias, [20]
• Philippe-Egalité, [129]
• Photographing pseudo-masterpieces, [169]
• Pietà, Zampini’s, [185]
• Pinacotheca of the Acropolis, the, [49], [71]
• Piot, [140]
• Plaquettes, [88], [91], [93]
• Plato, portrait of, [91]
• Plautus (“Menœchme”), [28]
• Pliny, [18];
• Gegania and Clesippus, [29];
• candelabra, [30];
• Nonius, [38];
• the “Young Philippian,” [40];
• Polygnotus and Pausias, [42];
• Scaurus, [46];
• Corinthian bronze, [51];
• patina, [51];
• Murrhines, [52];
• citrus tables, [54];
• as a connoisseur in bronze, [57];
• counterfeit Sardonyx, [58];
• Evander Aulanius, [60];
• Pliny, the younger, on faking, [59]
• Plutarch, “Sulla’s private travelling god,” [36]
• Police of Louis XIV, [128]
• Polish of faked furniture, the, [280]
• Politiano, [79]
• Pollaiodo, Antonio, [88]
• Polycletus, [24];
• bronzes, [30];
• cameo, [73]
• Polygnotus, [42]
• Pompey, a generous collector, [41]
• Pontchartrain, [128]
• Pope Leo X, portrait of, [99]
• Pope Sixtus IV and the Medicis, [80]
• Pottery, faked, [247], [253], [254]
• Pourquet, M., [295]
• Poustales collection, the, [89]
• Præco, the, [28], [213]
• Prado of Madrid, the, [87], [92]
• Praxiteles, [46]
• Precious stones, imitation of, [58]
• Prices and values, [147]
• Prints and drawings, faking old, [231]
• “Prioristi,” Florentine, [209]
• Private collections at Rome, beginning of, [22]
• Procopius, [62]
• Promenade of Pompey, [42]
• Propertius and Cynthia, [42]
• Protective laws, [105], [172]
• Psychology of collectors, the, [203]
• Ptolemy’s cup, [66]
• Public auctions in Rome, [28]
• Public sales, [211]
• Quattrocento imitations, [87];
• velvets, [289]
• Quintilian, [24]
• Racine’s works, [294]
• Radegond, St., [65]
• Raester, Olga, [285]
• Rameses, the forged, [203]
• Renaissance fakers of art, [68]
• Restorers and fakers, [59], [165]
• Restorers’ workshops in Rome, [60]
• Restoring paintings, [226]
• Retouching, [225]
• Reville’s Promptuarium, [92]
• Revolution, ceramics of the French, [252]
• Revolution, French, influence of the, [132]
• Rhodes’ pottery, [248]
• Riccio, bronzes of, [87], [101]
• Richelieu as a collector, [115]
• Ricordi of Lorenzo Medici, [78]
• Ridolfi, Prof., [178]
• Rienzi, [71]
• Rinuccini, [78]
• Rochefort, Henri, [162], [214]
• Rolland, Mme., [150]
• Roman busts, imitations of, [90]
• Roman house, the, [48], [49]
• Roman, the, not a lover of art, [18]
• Romano, Giulio, [111]
• Rome: the home of the collectors, [18];
• development of art, [21];
• beginnings of private collection, [22];
• fictitious art and fraud, [24];
• freakish prices, [25];
• septæ, [28];
• public auctions, [28];
• an emporium of art, [44];
• Roman house, [48];
• faking and copying, [59];
• artistic life, [60]
• Rosary, Mazarin’s valuable, [119]
• Rossini, [286]
• Rothschilds, the, [152], [235], [260], [269]
• Rovertet, [107]
• Rugs, Oriental, [293]
• Sacrarium, the, [49]
• St. Martin de Tours, monk of, [66]
• Saitaphernes, tiara of, [277]
• Sales of art collections, [128]
• Sales and auctions, [208]
• Salle Lebrun, the, [132]
• Salting collection, the, [191]
• Sanson, Charles, the executioner, a collector, [116]
• Sansovino, Jacopo, [89]
• Sardonyx, counterfeited, [58]
• Satire, on collecting, [125]
• Satyricon, the, [47]
• Sauval, [110]
• Savonarola, [83]
• Sbullettare, 186n.
• Scaling of terra-cotta, [186]
• Scarampi, Cardinal, [73], [74]
• Scaurus, [45];
• his atrium, [49]
• Scientific and artistic pursuits, [137]
• Scopas, [46]
• Seneca and art, [20];
• collectors, [32];
• bibliomaniacs, [50];
• veneered furniture, [55]
• Septæ, the, [28], [29]
• Servilia, [47]
• Servilius, [46]
• Sèvres, museum at, [248]
• Shaw, Bernard, [142]
• Shaw, Quincy, [31], [141]
• Shields, story of the three, [271]
• Siena imitators, [191]
• Sigillaria, the, [31]
• Signatures and monograms, [193], [208], [231]
• Signorili, Descriptio urbia Romæ of, [69]
• Silver, artistic, during the French Revolution, [275]
• Silver, colour and tone of, [276]
• Silver marks, [276]
• Silver work, [274]
• Silver, wrought, rage for, in Rome, [25]
• Sisinande, [56]
• Sixteenth-century art, [101]
• Slang, art dealers’, [159]
• Sleeping Cupid, the, [89]
• Smuggler, the, [171]
• Sogliani, [111]
• Solvents used in restoring pictures, [227]
• Specialist, the, [138]
• Spoon, Jacob, [127]
• Sposalizio, Correggio’s, [118]
• Squarcione, Francesco, [71]
• Staedel Museum, the, [96]
• Stamp-collecting, [299]
• Stanley, H. M., [142]
• Statues, [35], [36], [37]
• Stemmata, [49]
• Strongylion, bronze by, [40]
• Strozzi, Filippo, [101]
• Stucco duro imitations, [237]
• Suetonius, [29];
• Cæsar, [43], [212]
• Suggestion, influence of, [177]
• Sulla, [22], [31], [36]
• Supino, Prof., [178]
• Symbolic art, [63]
• Tabulæ auctionariæ, [213]
• Tanagras, faked, [235]
• Tane’s Philosophie de l’Art, [304]
• Tapestries, [49], [291]
• Tardieu and Sanson, [116]
• “Tazza Famese,” the, [80]
• Tedesco, Piero di Giovanni, [84]
• Tempera, use of, in restoring, [228]
• Temples as museums of art treasures, [18]
• Textile material, antique and modern, [288]
• Theophrastus, [18]
• Thibaudau, Trésor de la Curiosité, [128]
• Tiberius, II, [65]
• Timonacus, [43]
• Tintoretto, [102]
• Titian, [102], [120]
• Tongilius, the important collector, [34]
• Tortoise-shell as veneer, [55]
• Touchard, [248]
• Tourists in ancient Rome, [61]
• Trade and art, [150]
• Traité des plus belles bibliothèques, [115]
• Transferring bookbindings, [297]
• Trevoux, [136]
• Trimalcho, [26]
• Triclinia, [49]
• Trouillebert, [170]
• Tuscany, protective laws in, [106]
• Uffizi Gallery, the, [90]
• Ulysses Belgico-Gallico, Golnitz’s, [115]
• Urban VIII and the Coliseum, [105]
• Vaillant, [114]
• Valentino, Duke, [90]
• Valerius Maximus, [20]
• Varnish, imitating old and cracked, [229]
• Vasari, [86], [88], [89], [99], [225]
• Vedius Pollio and Augustus, [52]
• Vellano, bronzes of, [87], [88]
• Vellano, Vasari’s life of, [100]
• Velleius Paterculus, [19]
• Velvets, quattrocento and cinquecento, [289]
• Veneering in Rome, [55]
• Venetian works, effect of cleaning on, [217]
• Venus Anadyomene of Apelles, [60]
• Verres, the greedy collector, [22], [30], [31], [37]
• Verrocchio, Andrea del, [88–92]
• “Verrocchio and Co.,” [190]
• Vicentino, Valerio, [143]
• Victoria and Albert Museum, [96], [185], [188]
• Vindex, the real connoisseur, [35], [37]
• Virgil, [101]
• Vitruvius, [20];
• private palaces, [45]
• Volpi, Elia, Prof., [178]
• Voltaire, [130]
• Voyage pour l’Instruction, Verdier’s, [115]
• Voyage de Lister, [115]
• Voyage de Montaigne, [108]
• Vrain-Lucas, [199]
• Vulteius Medas, [28]
• “Wall breakers” at Athens, [18]
• Walters, H., [141]
• Warton, [110]
• Weapons, faked, [267]
• Wax work, [244]
• “Way for Asses, The,” [161]
• White, Stanford, [141], [304]
• Winckelmann, [36], [53], [58]
• Wood carving, colouring, [243]
• Worm-holes in furniture, imitation, [281]
• “Young Philippian,” the, [40]
• Zampini, Ferrante, [182], [185], [198]
• Zenodonis, a copyist, [59]

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1921

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