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The Art of Value promotes further research and discussion of issues relating to art crime and cultural heritage protection.

Frauds, Fakes and Forgeries

On October 11, 2022November 14, 2022 By theartofvalue

Another week of Robert Wittman’s course Art Crime: How Masterpieces are Stolen and Recovered has passed, and boy do we have some exiting stories to relate... Unpicking the differences One can assume that the adverse effects of being desensitised to art crimes, often considered “more prankster than gangster”, has coaxed the modern world into being …

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It has been claimed that culture is central to man and that without it no rights are possible since it is the matrix from which all else must spring. Culture is the essence of being human.

UNESCO Secretariat (1970), p. 10, quoted by Vrdoljak (2014), p. 139.

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Dr. Sue Berryman

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Cecilia Romero & Namrata Patel

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Mehar Chohan 

Georgina Tall 

Max van Steen

Alexandra Taylor

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