Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How forgery differs from restoration
Forgery hides a false identity, while honest restoration repairs a known work and records the repair.
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From the opening
Forgery makes or alters an object so it will pass as another work, another age, or another hand. Honest restoration stabilizes or repairs an existing work and keeps a record of what was added, so the original and the intervention can still be told apart. The opening covers false identity versus disclosed repair, fills, inpainting, and records, and a signature added in a repair.
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Inside
- False identity versus disclosed repair
- Fills, inpainting, and records
- A signature added in a repair
- When overpaint becomes the picture
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Documented, reversible conservation treatment
- Forgery as a false claim of authorship or age