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...your thesis advisers would not agree to letyou visit all the social hot spots on campus,consider a withdrawal into a world of fantasy.Sabre S. Mayhugh '92 can tell you everything aboutmid-17th century Chinese gardens, and then showyou his own design of such a horticulturaldelight...
...East Asian Studies/Visual and EnvironmentalStudies concentrator became interested in thetopic when he began translating a book written bya 17th century Chinese scholar about beautifulgardens. Gardens at the time were a means ofescaping from the political conflict caused by thechanging of dynasties...
...OFTEN COMPARE PAINTers with writers, because of the apples-and- oranges problem of imagining links between dissimilar arts. But in the case of Rembrandt van Rijn you can, and the temptation to do it, if not carried too far, can hardly be resisted. He was the Shakespeare of 17th century painting, even more so than Nicolas Poussin was the Milton...
...food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie of 17th century Amsterdam) he was, for most of his adult life, an extremely popular and successful artist working within a guild system that had changed relatively little since the Middle Ages. Thus he had apprentices, dozens of them over the years, whose work he sold for his own profit, and who sometimes...
UNLIKE RUBENS, REMBRANDT was not particularly scrupulous about saying which pictures were entirely by him and which were done in part by assistants, and the result -- coupled with the fact that when his reputation recovered from its short eclipse after his death, everyone who owned a brown luminous 17th century Dutch portrait wanted it to be by Rembrandt -- has been a web of confusion...