Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Release : 2013-09
ISBN : 9781230560366
Language : En, Es, Fr & De
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Book Description :
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Art forgeries, Art forgers, Han van Meegeren, Shaun Greenhalgh, Amarna Princess, The Faun, Jacques van Meegeren, Elmyr de Hory, Risley Park Lanx, F for Fake, Emile Schuffenecker, Eric Hebborn, John Drewe, Isleworth Mona Lisa, Kenneth Walton, Chang Dai-chien, David Stein, John Myatt, Craquelure, E. M. Washington, Tom Keating, Geert Jan Jansen, Giovanni Bastianini, Edme Samson, Konrad Kujau, Guy Hain, How to Steal a Million, Franz Tieze, Otto Wacker, Flower portrait, Ely Sakhai, Fernand Legros, William Blundell, Spanish Forger, Etruscan terracotta warriors, Eduardo de Valfierno, Black Aggie, Lothar Malskat, Black Admiral, Cupid, Jacob Baart de la Faille, Alceo Dossena, List of artworks with contested provenance, Kenneth Fetterman, Aged artwork, Pierre Brassau, Tony Tetro, Rospigliosi Cup, Karl Sim, Eadred Reliquary, The art of the faker, Robert Thwaites, Jean-Pierre Schecroun, Yves Chaudron. Excerpt: Han van Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer, Overijssel - 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist, and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the marvelous colours used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age, and later set out to become an artist himself. When art critics decried his work as tired and derivative, van Meegeren felt that they had destroyed his career. Thereupon, he decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer. He so well replicated the styles and colours of the artists that the best art critics and experts of the time regarded his paintings as genuine and sometimes exquisite. His most successful forgery was...