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By Dolnick, Edward; Vermeer van Delft, Jan; Göring, Hermann; Meegeren, Han van

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As riveting as a global conflict II mystery, The Forger's Spell is the genuine tale of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark used to be Hermann Goering, the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a enthusiast collector of art.

summary: As riveting as a global battle II mystery, The Forger's Spell is the real tale of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark used to be Hermann Goering, some of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a enthusiast collector of artwork

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This was not a matter of theatrics or establishing a mood, like dressing up in seventeenth-century garb, but a question of strat­ egy. The particles in hand-ground pigments vary in size; the particles in mod­ ern, commercially-made paint are uniform. Forgery plays out as a kind of board game, where each player tries to anticipate his rival’s next move. Van Meegeren had to be ready for an opponent with a microscope. ”) In Vermeer’s day, the pigments for black paint, for instance, came from charred peach pits or burned bones or ivory or even soot gathered from a smoky flame.

Th e f org e r, t h e n, is out to fool a person, not a machine. * A forgery is a performance, and a forger is in many ways a magician. By the time a magician announces that he is ready to perform his next trick, the trick is already over. “Please give my beautiful assistant a round of applause,” he tells the audience. ” But this is all window dressing. No one is going to be sawed in half. The real trick took place weeks before, in a carpentry shop, where craftsmen fash­ ioned a box that would give a contortionist like Nancy room to pull her legs up close to her body, safely out of the saw’s path.

He pro­ duced only a series of batches of melted goo. And then one day in 1907, he opened the lid of his Bakelizer oven and found what today we would immedi­ ately recognize as a piece of plastic. No such easy-to-shape, hard-to-damage (“it will not burn, it will not melt”) substance had ever existed. Man had fashioned something unknown in nature. Almost at once it became clear that this new invention had endless uses. ” The inventor himself retired to Miami, where he delighted in showing his guests his newest “invention,” a way of staying cool on even the hottest days.

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