Raiders of the Lost Art | Episode 5 | Vanishing Vermeers | Free Documentary History

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

The Dutch didn’t appreciate what they had. For over 200 years the Delft native baroque painter Johannes (Jan) Vermeer was completely forgotten. Trying to recover a lost man’s masterpieces has driven men to great extremes and gave rise to one of the greatest forgers the world has ever seen. In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today.[2]Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

[@patrickcork7981]

Exactly

[@cindyoverall8139]

Yes, they did appreciate what they had… thus, The Golden Age. They did not know about J. Vermeer who led a secretive painting life and died young. Rembrandt was the rage because he worked by commission making portraiture complimentary of the sitters of rank. Vermeer was lost in the scuffle. Read The Embarrassment of Riches, if you can get through it. It will show you the 17c. of Dutch Life.

[@juliefultz7530]

I love this series, and have been so sad that it was no longer available to watch. Thank you so much for uploading these, it is so great to be able to watch them again.

[@sabihatanveer8494]

Clarity in his work is astonishing ❤

[@sherirobinson6867]

Saw the movie about the forger... excellent flick and great talent

[@madzen112]

That forger seems like an intriguing character!

[@Nafosat_Toshtemirova]

Such a great episode! Thank you for this🙏

[@rosianaeo9380]

I saw milkmaid in Rijk and since then fall in love with Vermeer’s painting. I wish if any billionaires owned any of his stolen art, they would just donate it to the museum, so we’re all could enjoy his masterpiece. 😢

[@StevenJRoosa]

I think this painting is titled " Girl with a Pearl Earring." ?🤔

[@pedrogaspar10]

@@StevenJRoosa They're different paintings. The Girl with the Pearl Earring is at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. I saw it last weekend for the first time and it's mesmerizing. As is the View of Delft, also at the Mauritshuis.

[@TNT-km2eg]

Gentle beauty . Only Giorgione and Bellini could cope with this

[@erikbeermann7228]

My very favorite painter

[@smokymcpot5917]

Great video. Vermeer is one of my favorite artist and absolutely love the girl with the pearl ear ring. I've wondered who she was everytime I see the painting. If I could own any painting it would be this one.

[@ГерманУстинов-з1х]

Life💯❤!

[@enterthecarp7085]

Y’all get good actors for these productions.., 👍🏼

[@debd353]

It amazes me that those clumsy, downright ugly fakes actually fooled art scholars.

[@cyndifoore7743]

Wonderful doc!

[@cleverfitz779]

Good evening everyone

[@kauar.s3812]

Documentário é uma coisa que eu amo assistir

[@zoltankaparthy9095]

Very good, very interesting.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

oh wow. So glad you liked this! Me, I love art and good art stories (many of them are)

[@ГерманУстинов-з1х]

Like! Good day! October! Vermeer super!!!

[@leylag1466]

My two boys ages 5 and 8 are big Vermeer lovers. They could have told you about the ludicrous painting being a fake/ forgery. Geez.

[@LoudSilences]

Great video. Thanks. Too bad that so many are so cheap with the likes.

[@margaridavelhinho1618]

I saw his paitings in New York at the Frick Collection.

[@suztjembijawatson3362]

I've enjoyed Vermeers paintings all my life. I had been unaware that there were copies painted but interestingly I knew that there were Vermeers I enjoyed and ones I called 'weird' Vermeers. Turns out these were fakes. Still not sure exactly how I knew, but something was off.

[@Homeschoolsw6]

29:04..." sold them cheaply "

[@madzen112]

Definitely wouldn't be the same if he had used less vibrant colours

[@bastiennietveld7128]

Eeeh...No! I don't agree with you. The colors used in the paintings of Van Meegeren and Vermeer are absolutely comparable. Even more because Van Meegeren used the same composition of minerals to prepare his paint. ( except for the addition of formaldéhyde !) The colors are not the problem. The real problem is 'the way 'we' see faces at any certain moment '. Han van Meegeren 's way of seeing faces was influenced by the age he lived in. His Emmaüs was very Art Deco. You can be à Master forgerer...but you cannot escape the way you 'see' things. ( that's exactly why his former 'impresionnist' paintings where so influenced by the 1920s.

[@madArt1981]

The entire “Art” “market” IS, based on NOT the skills of the artist but who owns it and who owned it in the past. This is what determines the paintings value. Hype is factor but only after the fact of ownership

[@georgeshaw8925]

Sad situation with the Nazis did to art in the European theater. We can thank that sack of poopy 💩 political party for these problems along with many other situations.

[@jiggyfun807]

What happened to his 52 houses?

[@bastiennietveld7128]

Han van Meegeren could not have been convicted in this process. He was accused of collaboration and convicted for forgery . The trial was nil.

[@pyrpidonas]

satoshi nakamoto probably would feel like Vermeer.

[@cindyoverall8139]

Anyone who possibly entertain the notion that that ludicrous person could pass off his laughable work as a Vermeer is beyond comprehension.

[@greyeye6371]

I agree completely . Those fakes were silly looking .

[@michaelgallagher3640]

So-called art aficionados fell for it.

[@willsovereign2421]

Why are u still waiting for the "Self Portrait of the Artist" to appear? I mean, U said it bro.

[@patrickcork7981]

I am Guessing, Vermeer, Put Out at least 40 Painting, !!!!!!

[@madzen112]

Art forging is really just a coverband for painters

[@ludovic2431]

Do you know what a real van Meegeren costs nowadays?

[@toddaulner5393]

The one stolen from the Gardner museum is valued at 300-500 million but it is still missing.

[@giacogiaco5540]

I love copying Vermeers and people say they are brilliant...but there only sad daubes compaired to the real thing...

[@SandraNelson063]

You are creating tributes, reproductions, in honor of the artist. You do your work out of love. This will lead to an understanding of 17th century painting techniques, art history, and the strengthening of your own style. You don't have to do Vermeers in his style. You can use his work as an inspiration for your own work. Oh, the fun you are going to have!😊

[@madzen112]

One Vermeer, possibly still in private collection 😏🤫😈

[@cesar_145]

What a bunch of rubish. A merchant sales to whom ever will pay. All the purchasers of precoloombian art have never been to jail.

[@TonyLee-r6k]

Martin Cahill who stole it the second time is from Dublin and not Northern Ireland as the posh bloke makes out

[@meli2180]

Is that Tom Holland??????

[@bettyboop-xg6jo]

Girl with Pearl was not painted by Vermeer. Take a good look.

[@toddaulner5393]

Correction, everybody is interested in a successful faker.

[@TheVanillatech]

Vermeer was not a painter, he was an engineer who was amazing with optics and had great brush control / colour vision. That is all. He copied / traced / ghosted every painting he ever did. Don't get me wrong, not many people in the world have that kind of pantience and brush control (let alone figuring out HOW to copy using the mirrors), so I still enjoy his paintings. But they are not true art, in the sense that other "real" dutch artists strived for.

[@TheVanillatech]

@@peterpluim7912 no

[@thelantern9075]

“Not true art?” Strange comment from a seemingly intelligent person. What exactly is true art? Did it end 400 + years ago and is no longer allowed to evolve?

[@bcee2054]

@@TheVanillatech yes

[@shuttersteph]

He had to have an eye for light, composition and color, and other things like mood and posing. That is an artist to me.

[@PoorBoyPennyShow]

what he did was harder to do than what i do ,,,,,he was a painter for sure ,,but try doing what he did ,,very few people can do what he did,,,i respect all forms of painting ,,,i turn out 3 to 7 paintings a day and i dont even try realism any more since i mastered the, techniques ,,,,vermeer was a master at avery complex form of art