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020    9780060825416 |qhardback
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035    144819
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050 00 ND1662.M43 |bD65 2008
100 1  Dolnick, Edward, |d1952-
245 14 The forger's spell : |ba true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century / |cEdward Dolnick.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bHarper, |c[2008]
264  4  |c©2008
300    xii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color) ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index.
505 0  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.
520    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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Meegeren, Han van, |d1889-1947.
600 10 Vermeer, Johannes, |d1632-1675 |xForgeries.
650  0 Art treasures in war |zNetherlands |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |vArt and the war.
655  7 Art. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hND1662.M43 |iD65 2008