In this workshop we will study famous cases involving fakes and forgeries in art. While many dubious artworks were created after the Renaissance, we will look at many specific authenticity cases across historical periods. The workshop will focus on teaching the three main skills for discovering inauthentic artworks: traditional connoisseurship, or the science of looking at works of art by a specific artist and developing a knowledge of their process; provenance research, or the historical study of the ownership of a work of art; and the use of new scientific tools, used to test the actual material matter of an object to properly place it in the correct historical context in which it was made. Lectures will focus on the production of the most well known forgers of the last one hundred years, including but not limited to Han van Meegeren; Eric Hebborn; Elmer de Hory; and Wolfgang Beltracchi. Students will also have the opportunity to discover styles and formal qualities of artworks so as to develop their connoisseurship skills