| 1. |  | The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Price: $16.38
Customer Review:
This is a really good book, but I was disappointed that there are no color plates. Also, even though there are a lot of black & white reproductions and really interesting historical photos, the printing quality is not especially good. This is a shame, because the author spends a lot of time... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
from Harper
Price: $17.81
Customer Review:
A well written and informative story of one of the greatest hoaxes in art history. Being a novice to the art world, I was worried upon beginning the book that I might not understand the complexities of art forgery. However Dolnick's writing was understandable and intriguing even to a novice. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Lost Painting
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
Now, I loved A Civil Action. But one of the main reasons that that book was so great is because it had terrific villains. The Lost Painting, on the other hand, doesn't have a single antagonist, unless you count time, which I don't.
Also, A Civil Action had a single madcap hero who relented... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. | ![]() | Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
from Mayfield Pub Co
Customer Review:
Watching the "fringe" can be entertaining (though best from a safe position out of the line of fire). Many of our accepted tenets in science started on the fringe. A couple of the presently most accepted are still pretty fringy.
Kenneth L. Feder, a Professor at Central Connecticut State... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land
from Collins
Price: $18.15
Customer Review:
This book has some very interesting info about a recent spate of Biblical forgeries from the Holy Land and general information about the antiguities trade in the region. While the subject is to me very interesting it is unfortunate that the book seems to be written as a "who's who" of players, a... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
from PublicAffairs
Price: $13.16
Customer Review:
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about stolen antiquities. It reads like a thriller - it does have a lot of details, as others have mentioned, and the authors do become very indignant at times, but I believe this is because the book was published a few years ago,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | THE LOST PAINTING
from Random House
Customer Review:
I had high hopes for this book based off the reviews but after getting in about 100 pages I was still waiting for it to get interesting. It's a fairly fast read but I was left wanting more. There's no real mystery to where the story is going; the author tries to add in some drama but it really... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Art Forger's Handbook
from Overlook Hardcover
Customer Review:
Be warned, this book contains a lot of recipes for art materials - so if you are reading just for the anecdotes you might be a bit lost in some of the process descriptions. However, Eric has done a wonderful job of weaving wit and humor into the text; it is never dry or technical. A painter looking... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest Works Of Art
from Basic Books
Customer Review:
This was a big hit in France when it came out, but as an English-language book it suffers by comparison to Lynn Nicholas's magisterial 'Rape of Europa,' a vastly better book on the same topic--better written and better researched. Feliciano takes what is, in and of itself, a fascinating, profound... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
from Bloomsbury USA
Price: $16.47
Customer Review:
I found this book delightful and fascinating. Van Meegeren was not only a great artist in his own right but he could do it like Vermeer. And he was so meticulous. This was not someone who slapped paint on a canvas or forged a signature. Van Meegeren was a researcher, a scientist, who did everything... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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