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The man who made Vermeers : unvarnishing the legend of master forger Han van Meegeren / Jonathan Lopez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lopez, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meegeren, Han van, 1889-1947.
- Meegeren, Han van.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
- Art forgers--Netherlands--Biography.
- Art forgers.
- Painters--Netherlands--Biography.
- Painters.
- Netherlands.
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675--Forgeries.
- Vermeer, Johannes.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, [2008]
- Summary:
- Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook who plied the forger's trade far longer than he ever admitted--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez also explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe.
- Contents:
- Introduction. A liar's biography
- The collaborator
- Beautiful nonsense
- The sphinx of Delft
- Smoke and mirrors
- A happy hunting ground
- The master forger and the Fascist dream
- Sieg Heil!
- Goering gets a Vermeer
- The endgame
- Swept under the rug
- Epilogue. Framing the fake.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151013418
- 0151013411
- OCLC:
- 192048130
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