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Anthony M. Amore

Biography

Anthony M. Amore

Anthony M. Amore is the head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and contributes to the Boston Herald and the Huffington Post. He is the co-author of STEALING REMBRANDTS. He serves as trustee of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art and lectures widely on art crime.

Anthony M. Amore

Books by Anthony M. Amore

The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by Anthony M. Amore - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

Art scams are so numerous today that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good reason. Art scams are increasingly convincing and involve incredible sums of money. The cons perpetrated by unscrupulous art dealers and their accomplices are proportionately elaborate. Anthony M. Amore's THE ART OF THE CON tells the stories of some of history's most notorious yet untold cons.