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Looking Around (Free subscription) | yesterday
Christ at Emmaus , Han Van Meegeren, 1937/MUSEUM BOYMANS Did the world need two new accounts of the Han Van Meegeren story? He was the 20th century Dutch forger who turned out a succession of phony Vermeers that for a time were widely accepted. Hard to say, but this summer the world got two of them anyway: The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick (Harper) and The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Edward Dolnick's The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. About the book, from the publisher: As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's mark was
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has affirmed one class and downgraded three classes of notes issued by Vermeer Funding I, Ltd./Inc. (collectively Vermeer Funding). Fitch has also
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Making a Mark (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
I went to see Vilhelm Hammershøi - The Poetry of Silence last week at the Royal Academy of Arts. This is the first Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) retrospective in the UK and the exhibition features over 70 paintings spanning the career of this celebrated Danish artist. cover of the exhibition catalogue I found both the exhibition and the man to be intriguing and so I bought the catalogue and
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Sideline Views (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Red-White-n-Blue goes up against Le Oranje. Predictions, people. Get 'em in the comments before kickoff. Holland: Vermeer, Zuiverloon, Marcellis, Jaliens, De Guzman, Emanuelson, Maduro, Drenthe, Bakkal, Babel, Beerens U.S. Guzan, Wynne, Edu, Parkhurst, Orozco, Rogers, Bradley, Kljestan, Holden, Adu, McBride
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
One of the reasons I set up this blog was the hope that visitors would share their links to great art websites I hadn't come across. Sid, a Flemish webmaster despite the English-sounding name, has kindly sent me a link to Essential Vermeer "The Complete Oeuvre of Vermeer in Scale" , a gem of a website and most unusual (title link). Its thumbnails are all to scale. The dimensions of Vermeer's paintings...
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Conscientious (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
"Blurred and deliberately flawed, Miroslav Tichy's snatched photographs of women capture the frustrations of desire. At its best, his work has the delicacy and poise of a smutty Vermeer" - Geoff Dyer (I find myself increasingly torn about this photography, for reasons that I might outline at later)
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Neatorama reader David Nakamura saw our post of the pop culture Mona Leia painting and sent us a photo of this drawing made by his art school friend: a rendering of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring with Lisa Simpsons! Thanks David!
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Tmothy Brook is a Canadian historian of China who has taken up the Shaw Chair of Chinese Studies at Oxford. His many publications range widely across the last half dozen centuries in China: the history of Buddhists, book collectors, Christian converts, and collaborators with the Japanese, just to name a few. His approach is not merely eclectic, but shows a consistent ability to depict the lives of...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
It was nearly the perfect crime. In the madness of war-torn Europe, a talentless Dutch painter named Han van Meegeren managed to hoodwink the continent with a series of grotesque forgeries he claimed were the lost masterworks of beloved Delft painter Johannes Vermeer.
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Happy Catholic (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha , Jan Vermeer Ah well, better late than never, right? It is no secret that Martha is my patron saint. I chose her because she is the patron saint of housewives but it soon became clear that it probably was God who chose to put us together. I relate to Martha in so many ways and her life stands as a measure of the person I work toward becoming ... a faithful servant...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook takes objects in several Vermeer paintings [a map, a coin, a hat] and uses them as a door to understanding global trading during the early 1600s. The author does an amazing job of bringing in the details of global trading at that time that makes the current global trading more [...]
