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confirmation bias, 225–26

feuds and rivalries, 119–20

fooling the experts, 227–33, 232, 242, 243–45, 285, 286, 290, 291–93, 293

hesitation as sign of uncertainty, 239–42

opinion of and faith in the “eye” of, 20, 109–14, 121–31, 201–2, 223–26, 239–42, 239n, 242n, 291–93, 293

peer pressure and, 223–26, 231

rejection of science by, 114, 117

support of forged works, importance, 117–20, 145–49

the Uncanny Valley and, 132–36, 144, 150

Vermeer scholars, 22, 45n, 58, 58n, 59, 92, 95, 97n, 106, 108, 109–11, 119, 120, 121–31, 134n, 137, 140–41, 142–44, 145, 152, 164, 299n

Art Forger’s Handbook (Hebborn), 23

Art in America, 109

Art of Painting, The (Vermeer), 58–61, 58n, 82, 83, 93n, 142, 236, 236, 317n

Hitler’s obtaining of, 59–61, 301n

recovery of, 255

Astronomer, The (Vermeer), 64–65, 64n, 94, 171, 234, 235

obtained by Hitler, 64

Auschwitz, 30–31, 295n

Austria

art treasures obtained by Nazis, 60–61

art treasures recovered in Alt Aussee salt mine, 253–55, 254n, 262

Germany annexation of, 60

Goering’s wife in, 260

Hitler’s art museum for Linz, 51, 56, 57–58, 60, 61

B

Bachstitz, Kurt, 78

Back to the Truth (Decoen), 290

Baekeland, Leo H., 38–39

Bailey, Anthony, 96, 125n, 303n

Bakelite, 39, 45–47, 74, 167, 173, 173n, 176, 177, 214, 270, 277

Balanchine, George, 252

Barnouw-de Ranitz, Louise, 307n

Bartos, Armand, 73, 73n

Bathsheba (Rembrandt), 237, 237

Battle of Arnhem, 4

Battle of Stalin grad, 62–63

Belgium

art treasures taken by the Nazis, 7

escape from occupied, 28

percentage of Jews killed in, 30n

World War I and, 10

World War II and, 11

Berchtesgaden, Germany, 63, 257

Goering’s train and art, 259, 303n

Berenson, Bernard, 119n

Beversluis, Martien, 268

Blankert, Albert, 59, 97n., 98, 134n, 143, 218–19, 224–25, 240, 242n, 303n, 304n, 309n, 312n

Blind Leading the Blind (Brueghel), 255

Blink (Gladwell), 240, 318n

Bode, Wilhelm von, 118–19, 118n, 140, 140n

Bolton, En gland, hoax, 292–93, 293

Boon, Gerard A., 179–84, 180, 186–89, 193, 198–200, 263, 270, 283, 312n

Bormann, Martin, 257

Botticelli, Sandro, 221

Boucher, François, 261

Bourdichon, Jean, 105

Boymans Museum, 127, 144–49, 156, 310n

Christ at Emmaus forgery and, 185, 186, 188–91, 198–202, 203–10, 213–14, 268, 271, 280

restorer for, 203–6, 206n

storage of paintings in 1939, 209–10

Van Meegeren story of show at, 208–9

Vermeer show with fakes, 1935, 148–49, 164, 203, 207–10

Boy Smoking, A (Van Wijngaarden fake Hals), 114, 118, 306n

Braque, Georges, 75

Myatt’s fakes, 67, 70

Braun, Eva, 57

Bredius, Abraham, 92, 121–31, 141n, 156, 227, 307n, 309n

Christ at Emmaus forgery and, vii, 139–44, 149, 156, 179, 181–85, 186–91, 192–97, 198–200, 201, 203–5, 209, 221, 226, 240, 244, 263, 289, 312n

death of, 289

De Hooch forgeries and, 215, 263

as expert on Vermeer, 99, 120, 140–41, 226, 228, 240, 307n

homosexuality and, 122–23

Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord and, 139–44, 149, 179, 184, 186, 187, 190

Rembrandts discovered by, 121

signature of, 124, 124

Vermeer paintings discovered by, 127–31, 194, 203, 307n

Villa Evelyne, Monaco, 121, 181, 182, 183

Bredius Museum, 307n

British Museum, 229

Brochet, Fréderic, 230

Brooklyn Museum, 250

Broos, Ben, 111n, 148

Brueghel, Pieter, 25, 147n, 310n

paintings owned by Goering, 12, 255

paintings owned by Hitler, 61

Brunswick, Duke of, 98

Brunswick, Germany, 99

Brussels, Belgium, 276

Buckingham Palace, 216

Bunjes, Hermann, 252–53, 253n

Burlington Magazine, The, 139, 192–93, 195, 224, 292, 310n

C

Capablanca, José Raúl, 240

Caravaggio, 163–66, 167, 171, 195, 197, 310n

models used by, 170–71

versions of Christ at Emmaus, 165–66, 170

Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent

Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, A (Smith), 22

Central Laboratory, Belgian Museums, 276

Cézanne, Paul, 75

Myatt’s forgery of, 67

Chagall, Marc

forgeries of, 24, 25

Myatt’s fakes, 67, 70

Christ and the Adulteress (van Meegeren forgery), 214

Christ at Emmaus