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

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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/

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New blog post! The team of the DFG project “ForNet” about “Forgeries and Networks: data transformations”

https://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7237

#DHLab_IEG #arthistory #DigitalArtHistory #networkanalysis #forgeries

10 Famous Forgeries from the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

Medieval history is full of secrets—and some of its most influential documents were outright fakes. From forged royal charters to fabricated letters from mythical kings, here are 10 famous forgeries that reshaped the Middle Ages.

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I am endlessly amused by turn of the century #Byzantine enamel #forgeries made by someone who obviously saw "South Park" coming...
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1dâ€ȘErin L. Thompson‬ â€Ș@artcrimeprof.bsky.social‬

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. https://bit.ly/4gTDXWn

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@Pitt_Rivers #Fakes #forgeries

Makers and Fakers: How copies, replicas, casts and fakes 'make' museum collections

Explore the stories behind the hundreds of copies, casts, replicas and fakes in the museum collections!

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
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 https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1255824/police-inundated-with-calls-over-art-forgeries/
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.

Medieval document exposed as 18th-century forgery - Medievalists.net

A medieval document thought to date from 1266 has been exposed as an elaborate 18th-century forgery. Uncovered by researchers at Göttingen University, the text reveals the cunning schemes of Domenico Cicci, a forger who fabricated hundreds of documents to elevate his family’s status.

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