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050 1 4 _aND1662.M43
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100 1 _aDolnick, Edward,
_d1952-
_912135
245 1 4 _aThe forger's spell :
_ba true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century /
_cEdward Dolnick
250 _a1st Harper Perennial ed
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c2009
300 _axii, 349, 18 pages, [16] pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits, facs. ;
_c21 cm
500 _aOriginally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2008
500 _aIncludes "P.S. Insights, interviews & more-- " (18 p. at end.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aOccupied Holland. A knock on the door ; Looted art ; The outbreak of war ; Quasimodo ; The end of forgery? ; Forgery 101 ; Occupied Holland ; The war against the Jews ; The forger's challenge ; Bargaining with vultures ; Van Meegeren's tears -- Hermann Goering and Johannes Vermeer. Hermann Goering ; Adolf Hitler ; Chasing Vermeer ; Goering's art collection ; Insights from a forger ; The amiable psychopath ; Goering's prize ; Vermeer ; Johannes Vermeer, superstar ; A ghost's fingerprints -- The selling of Christ at Emmaus. Two forged Vermeers ; The expert's eye ; A forger's lessons ; Bredius ; "Without any doubt" ; The uncanny valley ; Betting the farm ; Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord ; Dirk Hannema ; The choice ; The Caravaggio connection ; In the forger's studio ; Christ at Emmaus ; 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 Goeringing on the run ; The nest egg ; Trapped! ; "I painted it myself!" ; Command performance ; The evidence piles up ; The trial ; The players make their exits
600 1 0 _aMeegeren, Han van,
_d1889-1947
_912136
600 1 0 _aVermeer, Johannes,
_d1632-1675
_xForgeries
_912137
650 0 _aArt treasures in war
_zNetherlands
_xHistory
_y20th century
_912138
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_vArt and the war
_912139
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