The author of this book, renowned journalist for The Art Newspaper, Vincent Nose, tells in an almost detective manner about a gang of scammers led by the famous art dealer Ruffini and a four-year study describing the "adventure of paintings by famous masters" around the world. Vincent Nose sheds light both on the technical ingenuity of forgers and on the inconsistency of experts who could not correctly attribute the paintings of the great masters.This book is about originals and fakes, about the profitable business of fraudsters, in which millions are spinning dollars. Major museums such as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty, the London National Gallery, the Louvre, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the National Gallery of Parma, Sotheby's, Christie's auctions in Paris, London and New York| prominent London and Parisian and Munich galleries| recognized experts across Europe and the US were all embroiled in the biggest scandal the art world has ever known.Editorial layout preserved in A4 PDF.