Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi was
cleared Wednesday of authenticating fake paintings as genuine
works by the late neo-avant-garde painter Gino de Dominicis.
But the preliminary hearings judge sent 19 other people
implicated in the case to trail starting December 21.
De Dominicis (Ancona, 1947 - Rome, 1998) was a
controversial protagonist of Italian art after the Second World
War.
Italy's crack art cops, the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage
Protection Unit, certified that the works in question were
counterfeit.
Sgarbi, who is also a prominent political polemicist, was fully
acquitted in the case.
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