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...Now the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has assembled more Vermeers than have ever been shown together. “The effect is momentous, almost dizzying,” writes our chief art critic Jackie Wullschläger....
...Now the building is under renovation, so his array of Vermeers, Van Dykes and Fragonards has gone on display at the Frick Madison, a modern building designed by Marcel Breuer....
...The so-called Vermeers painted by Han van Meegeren, the notorious Dutch art forger, did not change form when he confessed to his captors in 1945 to having faked them....
...Hans van Meegeren, a Dutch painter and forger who famously sold a fake Vermeer to the Nazis, used paint made from ground-up lapis lazuli for his blues, rather than the readily available synthetic ultramarine...
...Or do they include a priceless Vermeer that Ms Fordham does not know about? jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...Branson’s rebelliousness and Apple reflects the genius of Steve Jobs, Berkshire Hathaway has brand equity around trust, stability and integrity,” said Oscar Yuan, partner at consultancy Millward Brown Vermeer...
...She heads Vermeer, an Iowa-based manufacturer of agricultural and earthmoving equipment, which assembles products in its international markets but ships 25-50 per cent of the components from its factories...
...Elsewhere in the sector, MidSouth Bancorp, the holding company of MidSouth Bank and Lamar Bank, lost 3.5 per cent to $12.95 after it announced plans to sell up to $30m of shares to raise money for potential...
...central, it’s worth considering Starwood’s creditable if larger and less atmospheric Hotel Des Indes (www.hoteldesindesthehague.com; from €159), which is much closer to the Mauritshuis museum (with its three Vermeers...
...Mary Andringa, president and chief executive of Vermeer Manufacturing, a directional drill manufacturer in Pella, Iowa, says the last recession taught her a harsh lesson about the need to reduce inventory...
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