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Pages: 355
Pages: 355
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Introduction. A liar's biography -- Ch. 1. The collaborator -- Ch. 2. Beautiful nonsense -- Ch. 3. The sphinx of Delft -- Ch. 4. Smoke and mirrors -- Ch. 5. A h
Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:
Art historians have long speculated on how Vermeer achieved the uncanny mixture of detached precision, compositional repose, and perspective accuracy that have
Language: en
Pages: 543
Pages: 543
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins
New York Times Bestseller “Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in do
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transfo