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Mariana wrote: "Hello everyone! My name is Mariana and I am art conservation and restoration specialist and an author. If anyone has any questions about art conservation, art market and so on, I would love to answ..."Hello Mariana! It's great to meet you and welcome to the group! How wonderful to have a professional restoration specialist! I think that would be interesting and just thinking right now, I have a few question of my own I can ask you...
This is a great thread that you started and in a wonderful folder. You introduced your book, but also invited us to be able to ask you questions in the thread!
Well, off the top of my head:First, what kind of schooling did you have to do to become a specialist in recognizing forgeries? Wouldn't they have to have a forgery to show the class and demonstrate what makes it a forgery?
If so, what painting did they use as the forgery?
Did you ever have any classes or after schooling, any paintings that you were trying to 'unveil' (if that is the right term for it) that you felt were tedious?
Did you ever get frustrated? I would! But when I discovered something that proved something, it would be all worth it!
Have you ever discovered any really famous fine art that have been passed off even at major auction houses as real, but they are really forgeries?
See, I have lots of questions. I'll start there for now. :)
BTW, I just checked out your book and put it in my 'want to read' folder. I hope to get to it sooner rather than later. It looks really good!
Hi Heather, thank you for the questions.I am en easel paintings conservation and restoration specialist, that is my primary specialisation, but I have also specialisations in gilding (gold leaf), paper, wood and ship figureheads. In art conservation we primarily davide in materials, for example, I don't know anything about stone conservation... I got my degree in Florence, Italy, at Institute for art and restoration "Palazzo Spinelli" in 1999. I have worked for the Croatian Ministry of Culture, Croatian Conservation Institute, and as a private specialist for a number of museums. I worked on a number (50+, and then some) paintings, of all sizes from 1600- the 1950. I don't do contemporary art conservation. I have seen so many paintings inside and out, that the moment I I see one I can tell if something is off.. My journey with forgery started when I bought a painting to sell for profit. A friend of my parents, a gallery owner was trying to sell a painting from a famous Croatian painter, and was given all kinds of info, from museums and art historians, and the buyer was: I will I whont, and finally he called me to take a look. The moment I saw the painting I knew it was the real deal, and all he has been told was wrong. I had nothing to do with art trade, but I said, I'll buy it. I hung it on my wall and 4 years later I decided to sell. I found the buyer, a gallery owner, but I was told that only one art historian in the country can confirm the authenticity of the painting, if I can not get him to say it is original, no one will buy it. I just thought it was all very, very wrong. I was lucky I could get in touch with him, but I thought this is ridiculous and unfair. This is a monopoly. Then at the moment of the buy the gallery owner was checking the signature with the UV lamp, they did not know who I was. They did it all wrong and had no idea what they were doing, If I wanted I could have fooled them. I felt really sorry for the people who don't know what I do and find themselves in this situation, and so the idea of the guide was born.
And yes, I made a pretty cool discovery. I was given to restore what they thought was a 19 sc wooden Madonna sculpture. It turns out to be a 1600 guilded Madonna and a miraculous one. I can show pictures. If I figure out how :). Hope this helps:).
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What a fascinating story! About loading a picture, I’m not sure if it’s the HTML that you’re wondering about, but in the top General folder, a few threads down, there are instructions on posting pictures using HTML.
You went to school in my favorite city in the world! And no better place to study art, IMO. Where are you from? Are you Italian then?
I’d love to hear more stories!
No, I am Croatian, born and raised in Split, Croatia. But did my studies in Florence. Yes, I love it too...:)I just wanted to add to my post earlier. Most of the time in the conservation/museum world we get paintings and artworks from unknown authors. We are always looking for provenance, author attribution, history of the work. Detecting a forgery is the same thing just easier, because we have a known reference :).this is where I live https://youtu.be/kb1cOVOZZBE
Mariana wrote: "No, I am Croatian, born and raised in Split, Croatia. But did my studies in Florence. Yes, I love it too...:)I just wanted to add to my post earlier. Most of the time in the conservation/museum wor..."That is so cool how you have a YouTube video showing exactly where you live? Now did that show a city or the whole country? So you live in a port city? Is that a place where you have a lot of tourists? I thought I saw some cruise liners docked there. I'm not sure. I would love to see that now! What is your government like?
Ha ha ha...goverment....useless.....That is just the city I live, Split, a 1700 year old town, a UNESCO world heritage site, and one of the most beautiful places in the world.. :) just braging :).....Just google Croatia, we are a big tourist destination, cruiser season starts in April, ends November, at least 2 cruise ships a day in Split , in Dubrovnik is much worse they have 10 cruise ships a day, I think they had to limit them...of course this year was different....and Split was also the location of Game of Thrones filming....Thank you for showing interest
What a fascinating subject! Just bought this book.
Karen wrote: "What a fascinating subject! Just bought this book."Hi Karen! What did you think of the book? Or have you read it yet? There is a folder for Book reviews if you want to share your review (if you wrote one) I would love to know about it! I hope you see this post in answer to your post. This is a fascinating subject!
I'm so glad you reminded me that I have this book waiting! I've made a note to read it soon.Heather wrote: "Karen wrote: "What a fascinating subject! Just bought this book."
Hi Karen! What did you think of the book? Or have you read it yet? There is a folder for Book reviews if you want to share your re..."
Karen wrote: "I'm so glad you reminded me that I have this book waiting! I've made a note to read it soon.Heather wrote: "Karen wrote: "What a fascinating subject! Just bought this book."
Hi Karen! What did y..."
Great! I would love to hear what you think. Thank you!
My book is called How to recognize an art forgery, a short but useful guide. It is a nonfiction book, a product of 20 years of experiance. How to recognize an art forgery