Giulano Ruffini

Giulano Ruffini (born 1945) is a French art collector who has discovered a number of paintings that have been authenticated as being by old masters but some of which are suspected to be forgeries.

Investigation started in 2014.

Painter Lino Frongia is suspected as author.

Aude Buresi issued two arrest warrants in 2019 calling for the extradition of Frongia and Ruffini from Italy to France, but in 2020 Italian appeals court dismissed all nine of Buresi’s accusations against Frongia.

Works Ruffini said that he was lucky enough to find paintings that could have been done by Jan or Pieter Brueghel, Van Dyck, Correggio, Bronzino, Parmigianino, Solario, Van Bassen, Grimmer, Coorte and others.

Among involved paintings: Orazio Gentileschi. "David Contemplating the Head of Goliath" Portrait of Cardinal Borgia after Velazquez Correggio (school of). "Head of Christ" Cranach. "Venus with a Veil" (Prince of Liechtenstein's collection) Parmigianino. "Saint Jerome". (Sotheby’s, 2012) Bronzino. "Saint Cosmos"