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Bertus
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posted 02-08-2005 03:08 PM

Running until 28 February 2005 (so only a few weeks still) is an exhibition in the Groeningemuseum in Brugge (Belgium).

'Fake / not Fake: the story behind the restoration of the Flemish primitives.'

Here's the press file (in Dutch) http://www.brugge.be/musea/nl/persmapFakendl.pdf

The exhibition tells about 15th c. and 16th c. masterpieces such as by van Eyck which were restored 1930-1950 but whose restorer took a bit of artistic license when restoring or did his job so well that people couldn't tell what was original and what was his work. This posed many problems and only now it is becoming clear at what scale paintings have been 'restored'. The exhibition wants to bring this problem of what is fake and what is not and what is a forgery and what is simply restored into the open. Many museums and collectors do not want to discuss this or acknowledge their paintings might be forged or half of them might be only half a century old because this will devalue the works greatly.
There is a book being sold about this exhibition, but this is only available in Dutch and French.

160 pages, softcover, 100 illustrations, EUR 30, ISBN: 90-5544-521-5 (Dutch) · 90-5544-538-x (French), published november 2004

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Bertus Brokamp

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Martin
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posted 10-15-2005 04:48 PM

Hi Bertus,
that sort of reminds me of an incedent in northern Germany, where a restorator took the liberty of adding some pictures to various freskos in this church, the churches paintings where early 14th century, and what struck before this fellow admited of putting some additions on, where a row of various animals between vines, and one animal inparticular stuck out, a turkey! So to say proof that turkeys where known in Europe before 1492. The case was in a lot of newspapers in Germany. How a bit of paint can cause an enormus amount of confusion!
Martin

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Verpa es, qui istuc leges. Non es fidenter scripto!

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