Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Forged Art on eBay
Man accused of selling at least $300K worth of forged art on Ebay
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 02/06/2008 02:55:20 AM PST
IRVINE, Calif.—Police have arrested a 42-year-old man who they say made at least $300,000 auctioning off art forgeries on eBay.
Forty-two-year-old Vincent Lopreto is accused of selling imitations of works by English artist Damien Hirst that would be worth up to $20,000 apiece if authentic.
Lt. Rick Handfield said detectives have confirmed $300,000 in sales of bogus works by Lopreto, but they suspect he has bilked many more online customers, giving them fraudulent certificates of authenticity along with the fake art.
Lopreto was booked at the Orange County Jail on Tuesday and held in lieu of $350,000 bail.
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 02/06/2008 02:55:20 AM PST
IRVINE, Calif.—Police have arrested a 42-year-old man who they say made at least $300,000 auctioning off art forgeries on eBay.
Forty-two-year-old Vincent Lopreto is accused of selling imitations of works by English artist Damien Hirst that would be worth up to $20,000 apiece if authentic.
Lt. Rick Handfield said detectives have confirmed $300,000 in sales of bogus works by Lopreto, but they suspect he has bilked many more online customers, giving them fraudulent certificates of authenticity along with the fake art.
Lopreto was booked at the Orange County Jail on Tuesday and held in lieu of $350,000 bail.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Contemporary Art
Sotheby's Sales Rise 46% to $5.33 Billion on Contemporary Art
By Linda Sandler
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby's, the world's
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bloomberg.com
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Nativity-Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684)
Josefa de Óbidos (Seville, 1630- Óbidos, 1684) was a Spanish-born, Portuguese painter from the seventeenth century. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as, "Josefa em Óbidos" or, "Josefa de Ayalla". She is one of the relatively few female European painters known to have been active in the Baroque era. All of her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Reubens Adoration- 17th Century- Baroque
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[citation needed] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the Baroque cultural movement[citation needed] as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns. Some traits and aspects of Baroque paintings that differentiate this style from others are the abundant amount of details, often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of subjects, and an overall sense of awe, which was one of the goals in Baroque art. Read more...Source:
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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