Author: Kat

  • Forging Antiquity

    The Crime  Portrait Head; Unknown Artist, 300-150 BC, Hellenistic Period, said to be from Alexandria (Egypt), marble, British Museum, 1872,0515.1; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1872-0515-1 In the following document, I detailed how and why I made the choices I did in order to successfully create a Hellenistic sculpture forgery which was then sold to a private buyer.  I drew…