Jonathan Lopez

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Jonathan Lopez is an American writer and art historian. Born in 1969 in New York City, he was educated there and at Harvard. He is a frequent contributor to London-based Apollo: The International Magazine of the Arts. His December 2007 Apollo article "Gross False Pretences" related the details of an acrimonious 1908 dispute between the art dealer Leo Nardus and the wealthy industrialist P. A. B. Widener of Philadelphia.[1] Lopez has also published in Dutch in De Groene Amsterdammer.[2] His book, The Man Who Made Vermeers is a biography of the Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren.[3]

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  1. ^ Jonathan Lopez, "'Gross False Pretences': The Misdeeds of Art Dealer Leo Nardus," in Apollo: The International Magazine of the Arts 549 (December 2007): 76-83.
  2. ^ Jonathan Lopez, "Hitler en Van Meegeren: De meestervervalser en de fascistische droom," in De Groene Amsterdammer (September 29, 2006): 26-29.
  3. ^ Jonathan Lopez, The Man Who Made Vermeers (New York: Harcourt, 2008). ISBN: 978-0-15-101341-8.

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