Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen - 18: Rezeption, Zeitgeist, Fälschung – Umgang mit Antike(n)

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The colloquium was held in the context of the exhibition “Deceptively authentic” in Hohentübingen Castle which presented objects whose authenticity had been doubted at some stage. The volume contains an introduction and 24 papers on the “Augustus from the Allgäu region”, the appropriation of antique models in Renaissance times, Leon Battista Alberti’s doctrine of the reproduction of statues, forgeries and imitations of famous antiques, fakes in the Caylus Collection, Roman lamps with “fishermen in the harbour of Carthage”, creative copies, imitations of famous heads of Apollo, trading and forgeries of antiques in the 19th century, antique originals and literary antiques, false and missing exempla in music, fakes of Late Antique textiles, object art, meta art, and the contempt of the trompe-l’œil, amended and forged Roman marble urns, a portrait of Nero, a biconical urn with a helmet, fakes of Cypriot antiques, the Paduan coins of Giovanni da Cavino, a modern bronze Hercules, a forgery by Alceo Dossena, coin fakes in the Tux Collection, replicas of Tanagra figurines, archaeology at eBay, and the copying of archaeological finds for purposes of research and teaching.