Word: rembrandt
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...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 268 of Rembrandt's drawings. Best testimony to Rembrandt's enduring attraction: the record-breaking crowds of more than 140,000 European...
...reasons for Rembrandt's continuing appeal is that he inhabits a world in which modern man can still find his bearings. Leonardo da Vinci, born 154 years earlier, raised painters to the level of princes, held court while he worked to the accompaniment of music and brilliant conversation; his Venuses were meant to grace Olympian festivals. Rembrandt, whose parents saw to it that he got a good Latin-school education, plus a taste of university life, preferred the company of his sturdy Dutch countrymen. He once chose to paint his bride Saskia in the trappings of classic mythology...
...frenzy of inspiration, finished a canvas in a matter of hours, destroyed nine-tenths of what he painted by hacking it up with a knife. But oddly enough, Soutine had little sympathy with or liking for Van Gogh's work, claimed as his models such old masters as Rembrandt and Tintoretto, whom he did not remotely match in draftsmanship (though with the hot, jewellike quality of his color, he sometimes came close...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
...Saxony and King of 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...