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Beset by adversity, Rembrandt retreated even farther into his Bible, using his son Titus and his Jewish friends as models. Among his favorites was Hendrickjke Stoffels, the simple peasant family maid whom Rembrandt made his mistress after the death of Saskia. His Bathsheba, for which Hendrickjke posed, is ranked as one of the greatest nudes in Western art, not because of her classic beauty (in fact, Hendrickjke was squat and dumpy), but because of the unsparing yet loving eye Rembrandt cast on her flesh, recreating it against the rich fabric background. Result: a study of the quiet inner resignation with...
...Poland, who lived for art, was willing to spend as much as "twelve barrels of gold'' at a time for paintings he wanted. An insatiable collector, he acquired such paintings as Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter (which he thought was a Rembrandt), Rubens' Bathsheba and Tintoretto's Rescue of Arsinoe, in one peak year bought a grand total of 715 paintings. Greatest of Augustus' coups was his acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, once the property of the Benedictine monks of San Sisto, in Piacenza, Italy. When the painting was brought before...
Besides the general censorship trends, each country has its own individual peculiarities. Iran's potentates ousted "Mr. Imperium" because the king in the movie cavorted with "a common singer." The filming of "David and Bathsheba" seemed to irritate everyone-the Moslems were shocked by David's unsaintly behavior, Egypt sliced out a hot diplomatic exchange between David and the Egyptian ambassador, and Spain's censor worried because the film was based entirely on the Old Testament. The moral standards in India oppose any dance sequences "if there is a shaking," as well as all drinking. In the "Student Prince...
Hollywood usually bets big money when a sure thing comes along. One glance at the box-office receipts of such pictures as David and Bathsheba, Quo Vadis and Samson and Delilah proved that Biblical pictures pay off. What's more, according to Variety, the Biblical, or cast-of-thousands picture, is 1) ideal for wide-screen movies, and 2) appeals to older moviegoers who have recently been staying at home with their TVs. Variety reported last week that 13 big Bible stories were in the works...
...David and Bathsheba...