Kylie Holloway, Author at Museum Hack Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:12:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://museumhack.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/museumhack-min.jpg Kylie Holloway, Author at Museum Hack 32 32 The Man Who Sold an Art Forgery to the Nazis… and Almost Got Away With It https://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/ https://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:44:45 +0000 https://museumhack.com/?p=12337 Seventy years ago,  Hitler’s Vice Chancellor, Hermann Goering, treasured a priceless painting by Vermeer. Two years after the war, he found out his favorite painting was a forgery. A Very Brief History of Vermeer Before we get to that story, let’s get a little background on Johannes Vermeer himself. The 17th-century painter is best known […]

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