La doppia vita di Vermeer

Jan Vermeer from Delft is one of the most enigmatic, mysterious and ambiguous painters in the history of art. He died in disgrace in 1675, was forgotten for two centuries and only rediscovered in the second half of the 19th century. In a short time, his fame grew enormously, not least because of the admiration he was held in by famous writers such as Marcel Proust. But this book tells another story above all, the incredible story of Han van Meegeren, a 20th-century Dutch artist who, in order to take revenge on the critics who had panned his work as a traditionalist painter in the century of the avant-garde, painted a series of fake Vermeers.

Written in Italian, paperback, 212 pages, 2012.

ISBN: 978-88-04-54994-9