How Dutch artist forged and fooled

Art sometimes seems to be a province of Wealth: a paradox when one considers that many artists have starved in their early years, sometimes all through life. Dutch burghers certainly valued their carpets and paintings and were prepared to pay for them. Gifted painters were not above treating them as subjects, even if not without irony. Van Meegeren, the forger, knew his art but he loved money better, and was prepared to cheat. His forged "Supper at Emmaus" is replete with irony. The book is a comment on the ways of the art world, its experts and dealers.

Collection of flowers. The right rose appears in my mind, and everywhere shines when the soft wind remains in the light of a flower; the cold leaf is dead and here there's a shadow, the delicate dark and a loving profile. Francesco Sinibaldi