Urbano Quinto Heritage

Urbano Quinto was an international art dealer, writer and author of art books, private collector of Medieval and Renaissance art and Pop Art works on paper of the '70s and '80s.

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The Urbano Quinto Collection is famous throughout the world for the quality and extreme rarity of its compendium of art masterpieces.

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The UQ Heritage Collection and the individual collections of the heirs include famous masterpieces such as the iron flask damascening in gold and silver and the Chimeras key from the coffer secrets, works of the Renaissance by the extraordinary hand of Benvenuto Cellini. Significant masterpieces are also the Renaissance bronze plaque in dark patina, cast with lost wax and cold retouched with chisel, depicting The Last Supper from Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, the monumental pair of bronze fireplace andirons by the Alessandro Vittoria's workshop, the embossed and chiselled copper parade shield wheel, preserved in a leather patina, work of a craftsman near Michelangelo's workshop and the Donatellian boxwood Christ, extraordinarily executed without a loincloth in Florence, in the second half of the 15th century.

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Andy Warhol portrayed and photographed Urbano Quinto and his family several times with his famous Polaroids and Jean-Michel Basquiat portrayed him, together with his wife Anita and is son Mauro, in the series of works, initially created to be pasted onto canvas, "Swiss Lady, Swiss Boy and Urb". Keith Haring between 1982 and 1984 has several times amicably paid homage to Quinto, Anita and Mauro by depicting them during his impromptu performances in some of his famous drawings in the empty paper advertising spaces in the New York Subway.

 

Mauro Urbano, Anita Bischoff Urbano and the other heirs founded Urbano Quinto Heritage in Dover, DE, USA to safeguard the eternal memory of the life, the works and the collections of a man with an iron heart.

 

For over eight years we have been fighting in the Courts against unknown persons, who have placed on the market hundreds of fake letters of provenance, certificates of authenticity and origin, with false signatures of dr Mauro Urbano and Urbano Quinto, in order to fraudulently accompany the works to be placed in sale on the international market.

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The Urbano Quinto Heritage does not deal with commercial transactions of any kind and is therefore not affiliated with any art gallery or merchant, shopkeeper, auction house or online sales site.

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This site was created for:

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Verify the truthfulness of the documents of the Urbano Quinto Heritage by checking the code of the Private Archive of the U.Q. Heirs and checking the authenticity of the signature of dr Mauro Urbano or prof. Darius Wexlar.

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Provide assistance if the documents of the works has not issued by Urbano Quinto Heritage.

The Heritage takes care of  the inheritance of Urbano Quinto who passed away in 1997. All documents prior to his death must be studied to be authorized by Urbano Quinto Heritage.

We have to analyze the works, to understand if they were actually part of the private collection or the selection of the Urbano Quinto Gallery, and the signature of Urbano Quinto through a international calligraphy expert. If everything, after the verifications, will correspond, Urbano Quinto Heritage will be able to issue a new letter of provenance including the code of the Private Archive of the U.Q. Heirs.

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Lately we have been receiving more requests for checking drawings already known because they have been published and which have badly reproduced Letters of Provenance from Urbano Quinto Heritage. Please pay great attention and remember that we are available free of charge for checking the documentation and the right combination between the work and the papers. We plan to soon publish a tutorial with photographic examples of falsified or incorrectly matched Letters of Provenance.

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For more informations and to submit the documents, you can contact prof. Darius Wexlar, coordinator of the Urbano Quinto Heritage, Dover, DE, USA by filling out the following form.