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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 Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since.... read more

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  1. Jonathan Lopez (Author)

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  1. art
  2. art history
  3. europe
  4. forgers
  5. forgery
  6. vermeer
  7. world war ii 
 

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