In the art world, the biggest crime scene isn’t always behind locked doors. Sometimes it’s hanging on a museum wall.

In the new episode of Canvas of Crimes, we look at some of the most audacious art forgers in history — people who managed to fool collectors, experts, and entire museums.

One of them was Han van Meegeren, a Dutch painter who couldn’t find recognition for his own work, so he created masterpieces in the style of Vermeer instead. His paintings were so convincing that museums bought them as lost 17th-century originals.

Decades later, Wolfgang Beltracchi took art forgery to another level. Instead of copying famous paintings, he invented entirely new works in the style of modern masters — and even fabricated the story of a mysterious private collection to explain where they came from.

And then there was Elmyr de Hory, a man who may have created more than a thousand fake masterpieces while living quietly on the island of Ibiza, fooling collectors and experts for years.

But in the art world, even the most convincing illusion eventually cracks. What mistakes did these fraudsters make? And why were they eventually caught?

Listen to the new episode of Canvas of Crimes on The Sandy Times and discover how daring these art forgers really were.