Fakes & forgeries : the true crime stories of history's greatest deceptions : the criminals, the scams, and the victims / Brian Innes.
TITLE:
Fakes & forgeries : the true crime stories of history's greatest deceptions : the criminals, the scams, and the victims / Brian Innes.
Alternate Title:
Fakes and forgeries
By:
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest,
Physical Description:
256 p. : ill.
Summary:
Did you know that The Shroud of Turin, the most famous religious artifact in history, was really created over 1,000 years after Christ? Or that the famous Figure of the Sleeping Cupid by Michelangelo, adored by art lovers the world over, is almost certainly a forgery? Find the truth behind these and dozens of the other most ingenious "fakes" ever created in Brian Innes's incredible new book Fakes & Forgeries.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780762106257
