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...great Dutch artist's supposed 720 paintings are not actually Rembrandts. So far 170 have been reclassified, and last week came word that experts have determined that two more works were painted by someone else. Special neutron photography confirmed that The Man with the Golden Helmet, a beloved masterpiece housed at West Berlin's Staatliche museum, does not match known examples of Rembrandt's work. After that dismaying news, London's National Gallery announced that its Scholar in a Lofty Room bears the signature of a Rembrandt imitator. "The fact that Helmet is not a Rembrandt may be disappointing...
Your article "The Man with the Golden Helmet" [ESSAY, Dec. 16] brings to mind the expression, What's in a name? Obviously a great deal, since the renowned and "priceless" work by Rembrandt has fallen to one-twentieth of its previous value. One should ask, "What is in art?" A name? Stephen G. Schulhoff Baltimore...
...with the Golden Helmet hung in my father's living room throughout my youth. Now The Man rests on the wall in my study, watching me work and challenging me to find his strength in myself. It does not matter if he was created by Rembrandt or Joe Schmalz. The Man with the Golden Helmet is a part of my life and cannot be diminished. Bruce D. Anderson Bound Brook...
Matory is 43 years old. Wearing a dark suit, a neon-blue backpack, and a bicycle helmet, he arrives in his spacious William James Hall office eager to share his collection of Afro-Atlantic sacred...
WITH YOUR LONG HAIR TUCKED UNDERNEATH THAT RACING HELMET, HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH HELMET HEAD...