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Countless dollars of art are stolen or looted every year, yet governments often consider art theft a luxury problem. With limited public law enforcement, what prevents thieves, looters and organised criminal gangs from flooding the market with sto...

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In July 1980 London's National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens's Samson and Delilah (1609). But as the artist and art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis has long maintained, the painting is not the work of ...

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In July 1980 London's National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens's Samson and Delilah (1609). But as the artist and art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis has long maintained, the painting is not the work of ...

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Calling on four decades of experience as a specialist dealer in the creations of Carl Fabergé, Andre Ruzhnikov exposes both the worldwide forgers producing fake Fabergé and the dealers who knowingly trade in them. The corruption reaches all the wa...

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Buying a previously owned watch can be a risky purchase. Fake watches are legion on the internet and unscrupulous vendors are increasingly using this market place to sell their fraudulent products. Few second-hand watch websites call upon true exp...

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Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings. Recent progress in science has led to the development of new methods for investigating works ...

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Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings. Recent progress in science has led to the development of new methods for investigating works ...

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This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader...

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This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader...

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This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader...

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Wolfgang Beltracchi is a phenomenon of the international art world. His name is inextricably entwined with one of the greatest upheavals in the global art market. Emulating numerous world-famous artists, he developed and painted new paintings, con...

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Spring mit Vincent, Holly und Sam ins nÿchste Abenteuer!¿Vincent, Holly und Sam sind die einzigen Bildspringer der Welt - niemand sonst kann in Gemÿlde hineinspringen und sich darin bewegen. Als Van-Gogh-Agency wollen sie verschollene Bilder wi...

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Die Fälschungen Wolfgang Beltracchis hinterließen nicht nur große Schäden in finanzieller Hinsicht: Auch in der Wissenschaft und auf dem Kunstmarkt tat und tut sich ein Minenfeld bislang kaum abschätzbaren Ausmaßes auf. Die vorliegende Studie nähe...

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Galileo's O, Volume III, is perhaps without peer in the history of the book. In this work, historians in various fields revise the results they presented in the first two volumes, which focused on the New York copy of Sidereus Nuncius, written in ...

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This thesis comparatively investigates into the cross-border enforcement of claims to misappropriated cultural objects initiated by states. It identifies and categorises sovereign rights in cultural property, and discusses the legal mechanisms to ...

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Alfred Flechtheim was one of the most important art dealers of his era. His galleries included works by Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. Persecuted by the Nazi regime, Flechtheim fled abroad. The fate of much of his collection remains obscure and a ma...

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This volume reveals the potential effects of interdisciplinary cooperation between the areas of provenance research and art and cultural property law. The art historical articles deal with subjects such as cultural assets from colonial contexts, a...

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Not only Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring utilized the occupation of France during the Second World War to procure artworks for their collections - German museums also made acquisitions at the time. The advantageous foreign exchange rate and the la...

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In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against objects of visual material culture and testimonials of history act as dynamite in the public sphere. They are expressions of po...

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Over the past 20 years, the Restitution Commission in the Netherlands has had a decisive influence on international restitution practice relating to Nazi-confiscated cultural property. In 2021, its procedural regulations and substantive legal basi...

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The Washington Principles of 1998 call for "just and fair solutions" in dealing with "Nazi-looted art". The United Kingdom implemented this call in 2000 by establishing the Spoliation Advisory Panel (SAP), which has since provided a dispute-resolu...

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25 years after the publication of the "Joint Declaration", in which the Federal Republic of Germany committed itself to the Washington Principles in 1998, this publication takes a look at today's restitution practice for "Nazi looted art". The bas...

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In 1998, France was one of the 44 signatory states of the Washington Declaration. This study examines to what extent the Republic has fulfilled its obligations under this declaration by evaluating the extensive case practice. In contrast to other ...

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