EXHIBITION PHOTO GALLERY  

Icilio Federico Joni in page costume, 1890.

1. Antiquarian taste and the international market in the 19th and 20th centuries
2. Exercises in style, commissioned copies, fraudolent copies, copies circulated as forgeries, restorations
3. The Icilio Federico Joni Section (Siena, 1866-1946)
4. The Umberto Giunti Section (1886-1970): from 'fresco forger' to Botticelli and beyond
5. Collaborators and followers
6. The forger's workshop: preparatory sketches, archive photographs, tools, punches, and fragments of spoiled panels
7. Documents, photographic portraits, writings and documentation regarding the lives of the forgers

This part of the exhibition comprises the documentation regarding notebooks, writings and photographic portraits, especially of Federico Joni. Also on display are manuscripts, drafts with autographed corrections, the original edition of the celebrated Memorie di un pittore di quadri antichi (1932) and the rare English translation, Affairs of a painter (1936), as well as a selection of other publications by Joni.

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