1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006787830403321

Autore

Aristide, Isabelle

Titolo

La fortune de Sully / Isabelle Aristide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Comite pour l'histoire economique et financiere de la France. Ministere de l'economie des finances et du budget, s.d.

Descrizione fisica

XXVI, 498 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Histoire economique et financierede la France

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XI A 2254

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459051303321

Autore

Tromp Henk

Titolo

A real Van Gogh [[electronic resource] ] : how the art world struggles with truth / / Henk Tromp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Amsterdam], : Amsterdam University Press, 2010

ISBN

90-485-1141-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

709

751.58

759.9492

Soggetti

Art - Expertising

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Dramatis personae; Introduction; 1. An eye for an eye; 2. True colors; 3. Hushing up; 4. For art's sake; 5. The expert



tamed; 6. Retaliation; 7. An uneasy legacy; 8. Between a rock and a hard place; 9. Among art experts; 10. The gift; 11. The unfinished Vincent; Acknowledgments; Notes; Archives; Illustrations; Bibliography; Index of names

Sommario/riassunto

Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real van Goghs from the fake ones, and the key question addressed in this book is what may happen to art experts when they publicly voice their opinions on a particular van Gogh (or not). The story starts with art expert J.B. de la Faille who discovered to his own bewilderment that he had included dozens of fake Van Goghs in his 1928 catalogue raisonné. He wanted to set the record strai

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00145959

Autore

al-MAHDI, Mandour

Titolo

A short history of the Sudan / Mandour El Mahdi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Oxford University press, 1965

Descrizione fisica

154 p. ; 20 cm

Classificazione

SUD IV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia