{"id":270,"date":"2021-05-06T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2021-05-28T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:58:58","slug":"icilio-federico-joni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/icilio-federico-joni\/","title":{"rendered":"Icilio Federico Joni (1866\u20131946)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-694x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-1042x1536.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-1389x2048.jpg 1389w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-1568x2312.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/file_000_cropped_0-scaled.jpg 1736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><figcaption>Icilio Federico Joni<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From a young age, Joni worked in a gilding shop in Siena, Italy, where he discovered his natural talent for working with wood, plaster, and paint. Although he began a restoration business to make extra money, it quickly turned into a forgery business. Most of Joni\u2019s forgeries were replicas of Italian Medieval and Renaissance works of art, specifically panel paintings, triptychs, wooden caskets, and bookbindings. His most well-known forgeries are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/lot\/lot-1794027\">Tavolette Covers<\/a>. Only fourteen of his covers have been recovered, yet it is believed that many more survive! One flaw began to give his work away. He dated many of the wooden bindings after 1459, which became an issue because that was the year leather became used for bindings. Like many forgers, he boasted his forging talents in an autobiography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/45459709-le-memorie-di-un-pittore-di-quadri-antichi\"><em>Le Memorie di un Pittore di Quadri Antichi<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Caroline Scarola<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connelly, Chelsea. &#8220;Delighting in Forged Bindings: Icilio Federico Joni.&#8221;  <em>Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library.<\/em> 27 January 2020. https:\/\/beinecke.library.yale.edu\/article\/delighting-forged-bindings-icilio-federico-joni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a young age, Joni worked in a gilding shop in Siena, Italy, where he discovered his natural talent for working with wood, plaster, and paint. Although he began a restoration business to make extra money, it quickly turned into a forgery business. Most of Joni\u2019s forgeries were replicas of Italian Medieval and Renaissance works&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/icilio-federico-joni\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Icilio Federico Joni (1866\u20131946)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}