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Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that...
Captain Frans Banning Cocq's watchmen? Rembrandt's Nightwatch is all we know of them. Napoleon's coronation? Jacques Louis David's massive painting is the permanent report. French firing squads at work in Spain in 1808? Goya's painting, both witness and indictment, has...
Another ancient barrier of suspicion between Roman Catholics and Protestants seems about to fall: the distrust of one another's sacraments. Catholics have historically refused to acknowledge the validity of such Protestant spiritual acts as ordination, confirmation and celebration of the Eucharist, although they do not question Protestant baptisms...
With just a few hours of practice, a neophyte can tootle Yankee Doodle, and in a matter of weeks he can play duets. On the other hand, real expertise is as difficult to achieve on the recorder as it is on the violin. There are only a handful of virtuosos...
In the period from about 1763 to 1767 Copley developed a heavier impasto and a freer abbreviated brush stroke which is highly reminiscent of the late portraiture of Frans Hals. By 1765, Copley finally had his technique under control; his work became more straightforward and simple as if clearing away...