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" The forger's spell : "
Edward Dolnick
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BL
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652025
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Dolnick, Edward,1952-
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| Title & Author
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The forger's spell : : a true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century /\ Edward Dolnick
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Harper,, c2008
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xii, 349 p., [16] p. of plates ;: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm
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9780060825416 (hbk.)
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: 0060825413 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-330) and index
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| Contents
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OCCUPIED HOLLAND. A knock on the door -- Looted art -- The outbreak of war -- Quasimodo -- The end of forgery? -- Forgery 101 -- The war against the Jews -- The forger's challenge -- Bargaining with vultures -- Van Meegeren's tears -- HERMANN GOERING AND JOHANNES VERMEER. Adolf Hitler -- Chasing Vermeer -- Goering's art collection -- Insights from a forger -- The amiable psychopath -- Goering's prize -- Vermeer, superstar -- A ghost's fingerprints -- THE SELLING OF CHRIST AT EMMAUS. Two forged Vermeers -- The expert's eye -- A forger's lesson -- Bredius -- "Without any doubt!" -- The uncanny valley -- Betting the farm -- Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord -- Dick Hannema -- The choice -- The Caravaggio connection -- In the forger's studio -- Underground tremors -- The summer of 1937 -- The lamb at the bank -- "Every inch a Vermeer" -- Two weeks and counting -- Too late! -- The last hurdle -- The unveiling -- ANATOMY OF A HOAX. Scandal in the archives -- All in the timing -- Believing is seeing -- The men who knew too much -- Blue Monday -- He who hesitates -- The great changeover -- THE CHASE. The secret in the salt mine -- The dentist's tale -- Goering on the run -- The nest egg -- Trapped! -- "I painted it myself!" -- Command performance -- The evidence piles up -- The trial -- The players make their exits
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art
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Meegeren, Han van,1889-1947
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Vermeer, Johannes,1632-1675-- Forgeries
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Art treasures in war-- Netherlands-- History-- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945, Art and the war
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| Dewey Classification
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759.9492B
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ND1662.M43D65 2008
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