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The Gentle Art of Faking

Part 3 — INDEX.

Reading edition

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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