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[alainwundermann]

The “grand forgery ring” never landed. In 2018, core charges against Itzhak (Izzy) Zarug were dropped; what lingered were paperwork issues—not a verdict on authorship. If the biggest accusations didn’t hold, our standards for evidence must.

[alainwundermann]

TITLE: Art Shock: The Zarug Witch Hunt (Read This Before You Judge)

Hot take: The “grand forgery ring” never landed. In 2018, the core counterfeiting/conspiracy charges against Itzhak (Izzy) Zarug were dropped. What stuck were narrow paperwork counts, and the authenticity of the broader collection was never adjudicated. Yet the headlines—and the stigma—stayed. That feels less like justice and more like a witch hunt.

If the biggest accusations didn’t hold, why do we keep acting like they did?

What this is really about

Process over headlines. Paperwork ≠ painting. Documentation mistakes don’t decide authorship.

Transparency or bust. Publish the tests, the raw data, the provenance chain, and the dissenting opinions.

Stop the gatekeeping. Use blind, rotating panels with conflict-of-interest disclosures.

Label uncertainty. Confidence bands + basis of attribution on wall labels and in catalogues.

PS: This post argues that Zarug was treated as guilty of a forgery ring that courts didn’t confirm. Disagree? Bring sources, not smoke.

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[tagsmarthq]

Prado opens landmark Bosch exhibition amid attribution controversy

Bosch fever is now moving on to Madrid, where the most comprehensive exhibition ever held on the Dutch master opens today (31 May). Twenty-four works by Hieronymus Bosch are on display—seven more than were at the Noordbrabants Museum in s’Hertogenbosch earlier this year. Probably never again will so many of his paintings be brought together.

However, part of the difference between the Bosch numbers at the Noordbrabants and the Prado is because of attributional questions. Dutch researchers demoted four works, all Spanish-owned pictures. The Noordbrabants team numbered the Spanish works as 24 (of which they got 17). The Prado specialists regard the total of fully-attributed works as 27 (of which they got 24). 

[tagsmarthq]

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[tagsmarthq]

The so-called Caravaggio in the attic looks like a fake to me

I am sorry but it is all too good to be true. The owners of an old house near Toulouse ventured into their attic and found a large dusty painting. When a local antiques dealer gave it a gentle clean, he recognised it as a painting by – or closely associated with – none other than the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.