Q12

[ohsobecca]

I just read through the Lessing/forgery passage again but still had some difficulty answering this question. Can someone give me a line reference for 12?

[ohsobecca]

Wait...I think I fundamentally misunderstood what they were talking about. Since they say "The Disciples of Emmaus--painted under the forged signature of Vermeer..." and then discuss using Vermeer's techniques in the other paragraphs...are we to conclude that this wasn't a copy of one of Vermeer's paintings at all? Instead, it was a painting that the forger had just done to LOOK like Vermeer would have done? Dang. Okay, is that right? Because then I get #12.

[katie1]

That is how I interpreted the passage - that that Vermeer never painted anything by that name.

[farhadshekib]

Wait...I think I fundamentally misunderstood what they were talking about. Since they say "The Disciples of Emmaus--painted under the forged signature of Vermeer..." and then discuss using Vermeer's techniques in the other paragraphs...are we to conclude that this wasn't a copy of one of Vermeer's paintings at all? Instead, it was a painting that the forger had just done to LOOK like Vermeer would have done? Dang. Okay, is that right? Because then I get #12.

Exactly.