Category : Forged Fridays
In 1985, John Myatt’s wife left him. At the time he was working as a teacher but following his wife’s sudden departure, he stopped and resolved to spend more time with his children. Myatt, however, did not have a steady source of income. He had trained as a painter, and during the 1960s he had
Albrecht Dürer was a polymath. Born on the 28th May, 1471, in Nuremberg, over the course of his career he demonstrated skill as a painter, a printmaker and a writer. At a young age he apprenticed as a goldsmith, and an engraver, and throughout his life he worked to learn and perfect as many skills
Forgery is a very modern concept. In Jonathon Keats’ excellent book, The Art of Forgery, he opens with a story about the citizens of Naples and Florence arguing over a portrait of Pope Leo X. A seemingly identical portrait hung in each city, and, according to Keats, the citizens of the two cities spent a
