Norton Simon Museum - Event - Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship

Norton Simon Museum - Event - Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship
Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship

April 23rd 2011
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lecture
Norton Simon Museum

Museums, Art historians and collectors are forever dealing with the problem of modern copies of ancient works of art. Such Copies, once displayed and published as authentic then become standards by which other objects are judged and thereby risk gravely misrepresenting the art-historical record. This illustrated lecture focuses on the complex issue of forgeries by examining workshops in India and Southeast Asia that produce artworks in 'ancient styles'.