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...BARTHOLOMEW'S NIGHT (285 pp.) -Philippe Erlanger-Pantheon...
...Bartholomew's Night is an account of the August madness in 1572, when a confluence of chance, state policy and the religious hatreds of the Reformation caused the murder of at least 2,000, and perhaps as many as 100,000, Protestants. The book has its flaws. Author Erlanger, a French historian, has an extraordinary talent for making the complicated seem complicated, and too often the names he cites remain simply names. But his treatment is more thoughtful than is customary in day-it-happened books. The reader must be willing to work; if he is, he is well...
When Rembrandt's St. Bartholomew was sold at Sotheby's fortnight ago for $532,000-fifth highest auction price ever paid for a painting-the buyer was Agnew's, a London art firm. But Agnew's was merely acting for Oilman J. Paul Getty, 69, who let it slip last week that he now had the masterpiece hanging in his Sutton Place mansion outside London...
...bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still and all, the smaller...
Died. Harry Guy Bartholomew. 78. longtime editor of the London Daily Mirror, a stout Fleet Street lord who held British journalism "too niminy piminy" and so transformed a dowager's daily into the world's first picture tabloid and still largest daily newspaper (circ. 4,593,263) by a blend of strident headlines (on Dunkirk's evacuation: BLOODY MARVELLOUS). cartoon strips and pro-Labor politics; of heart disease; in Camberley, England...