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...university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, chosen from 63 collections, including Leningrad's world-famous Hermitage (see color pages). At the same time, Rotterdam's Boymans Museum is exhibiting...
Molten Light. Rembrandt's early popularity among his countrymen (who were to spurn the full flowering of his genius) was solidly rooted in the artistic techniques of both Italy and northern Europe. His early teacher in Leiden had studied in Italy, there learned Caravaggio's trick of sharply contrasting light and shadow, to make light itself the most dramatic element in the picture. Rembrandt's painting, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, done when the artist was only 24, already shows both Rembrandt's love of Biblical subjects and the virtuoso control of light that gives...
Harry K. Schwartz, Government, Worcester College, University of Oxford; Winthrop D. Means Geology, Emanuel College, University of Cambridge; Doyle R. Fosso, Norwegian Language and Literature, University of Oslo; Norman Araujo, French Literature, University of AixMarseille, France; Peter Westervelt, Early Christian Latin Literature, State University, Leiden, The Netherlands; and Paul G. Forand, Islamic Literature, American University at Cairo...
While teaching here in 1951, Dutch astrophysicist H. C. van de Hulst gathered some information and equipment from Ewen and transmitted them to Leiden University astronomers. Work done at Kootwijk with slightly different equipment verified Ewen's report, which was further confirmed by the findings of an Australian radio telescope...
...astronomer, visiting lecturer from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, spoke at the third in the Observatory's semi-annual series of open nights...