The optical magic of the camera obscura
The outrageously expensive blue
Everyday lives behind the glass
The great vanishing act and the fakes
YOUR GOAL
Master of Vermeer and the mystery of the quiet window
suaz Han van Meegeren
To save his life from a treason charge, He forged a Vermeer for the court at large.
suaz Dealers sold Vermeer's masterpieces under names like Pieter de Hooch until French critic Théophile Th rediscovered him in the 1860s.
suaz Adjust the window's light to discover how Vermeer captured everyday life in his rare masterpieces.
The forger's revenge: Han van Meegeren began forging Vermeer paintings out of anger because art critics had ridiculed his own original artwork.
The illegal copying of a document, signature, banknote, or work of art to deceive others. In 1945, Dutch painter Han van Meegeren confessed to creating multiple counterfeit artworks attributed to Johannes Vermeer.
Why were some of Vermeer's paintings signed with the names of other artists after his death?
Which 19th-century French art critic is credited with 'rediscovering' Vermeer and bringing him back to global fame?
What crime was Han van Meegeren originally charged with before he confessed to forging Vermeer's paintings?
To which high-ranking Nazi leader did Han van Meegeren sell a forged Vermeer painting during World War II?
What early synthetic plastic did forger Han van Meegeren mix with his paints to make them harden like ancient oils?
How did Han van Meegeren create the realistic cracks, called craquelure, on his forged Vermeer canvases?
What was the final prison sentence handed to Han van Meegeren after he proved his Vermeer paintings were fakes?