,shorts,viralshorts,Han van Meegeren,Art Forgery,Vermeer,WWII,True Story,Real Facts,History,Art History,Unbelievable Lives,Nazi,QNN1MYhTFvs,, Knowledge, channel_UC3jF8jSLWdpgBhf98h3l_7A, video_QNN1MYhTFvs,Han van Meegeren was a masterful forger who perfected the techniques of 17th-century Dutch painters. His greatest deception was selling a forged Vermeer, "The Woman Taken in Adultery," to Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in exchange for 137 other looted paintings. When he was charged with treason—a crime punishable by death—van Meegeren confessed to the lesser crime of forgery. To prove his outlandish claim, he painted another fake Vermeer while in custody. The charges were dropped, and he was celebrated for his cunning.
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