The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Dolnick, Edward

ISBN 10: 0060825413 / ISBN 13: 9780060825416

Editore: Harper, 2008

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A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteedâ but the story's all there!

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• Titolo: The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
• Editore: Harper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0060825413
• ISBN 13: 9780060825416
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

Profiles the dramatic art hoax through which a small-time Dutch painter conned a reviled Nazi leader by creating works that impersonated those of famed artist Jan Vermeer, a seven-year deception during which the forger hid his mediocre artistic abilities through psychologically manipulative practices. 30,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown, The Forger’s Spell, and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.