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flattery so committed it becomes a crime, and occasionally outsells the original.
means The act of faking a document, signature, artwork, or currency with intent to deceive, or the fake object itself.
from From the verb 'forge' — to make something at a forge, the smith's hearth where iron is heated and hammered into shape. That came through Old French 'forgier' from Latin 'fabricare,' to fashion or construct (the same root that gives us 'fabricate'). The honest sense of forging metal slipped into the dishonest sense of forging documents because both mean 'to manufacture' — and somewhere along the way, making a thing and faking a thing became hard to tell apart.
- market truth
- Some forgeries hang undetected in major museums today
- famous fooler
- Han van Meegeren fooled Nazis with fake Vermeers
- ironic fame
- Skilled forgers gain celebrity once finally caught
- telltale sign
- Modern chemistry exposes pigments invented after the supposed date
- legal weight
- Counts as fraud even if the art is gorgeous
the hitler diaries — stern magazine's 1983 hoax: 62 volumes of fake adolf hitler journals exposed as forgeries by forensic analysis
the vermeer paintings — han van meegeren forged at least 14 vermeers and other dutch masters, selling them for millions in the 1930s-40s
the lying game paintings — mark landis created over 100 forged artworks attributed to famous artists and donated them to museums from 1990-2010