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...late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed Europe as Fugger linen left to bleach in the sun once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in the Tyrol, exporting textiles, metal and salt to lands beyond the seas, bringing back rare spices, furs and fruit. Almost one-third of Augsburg's 34,000 people were employed by the Fuggers, and kings and emperors knocked on Jakob's door for funds to wage...
...staff at Fogg, to whom acknowledgements for help and advice are made in the Student Collection's catalogue, largely disclaims responsibility for the mistakes, which are few. "The idea of the student collection," stated Jakob Rosenberg '19, professor of Fine Arts, "was that the students do it on their own." According to Philip Hofer '21, secretary of the Fogg Museum, the students organized the collection "mostly without supervision...
...Michael Friedsam, had been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function," wrote Rosenberg. "The transitional tones, so essential...
Rolls-Royces and Bentleys jammed London's narrow St. George Street one night last week, unloaded enough celebrities to make a smash Covent Garden opening night. Their objective: Sotheby's, the staid auction house where seven impressionist paintings from the collection of the late banker Jakob Goldschmidt were going under the hammer...
Tough Isbrandtsen Founder Hans Isbrandtsen challenged the legality of the dual rate, fought it through many courts before he died in 1953. Since then, the company has carried on his battle under .the leadership of his son Jakob, 36, now company president. The Department of Agriculture, which ships huge quantities of surplus food, and the Justice Department joined the fray-but on Isbrandtsen's side...