https://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/#comment-11079 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 04:15:53 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=12337#comment-11079 This was a beautiful article and I read the entire thing because I was so fascinated! Thank you for writing this!

]]> https://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/#comment-8855 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:38:15 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=12337#comment-8855 David Hockney proved without a doubt that Vermeer used optics in “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters” (2001), as well as the film “Tim’s Vermeer” from 2014. Van Meegeren, of course, was a hack, and it’s positively hilarious that he completely fooled the 1930s art world with that dreck.

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