Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid for a painting until Rembrandt's Aristotle (on TIME's cover that issue) went to the Metropolitan Museum...
...Douglas Auchincloss, whose 19th cover story this is, in his 15 years as Religion editor. It was edited by Senior Editor Bill Forbis, who has put in a busy month. He has been responsible for editing three out of the past four TIME cover stories (the other two: the Rembrandt painting in Art, Virologist Enders in Medicine...
Visser 't Hooft's chief hobby is Rembrandt. He first grew interested simply because Rembrandt, a fellow countryman, was one of history's greatest painters and had contributed so much to the world of art. But as he learned more about him, he realized that Rembrandt had done an extraordinary number of Biblical paintings. "He had a certain conception of the Bible," says Wim. "I became interested in what he was trying to say." But he found no books that told him, so the World Council's Visser 't Hooft wrote one himself: Rembrandt...
...disappointing $27,000, which was $53,000 below the Parke-Bernet estimate. On the other hand, a splendid Princess Sibylle of Cleves, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, was bought by Thomas Agnew & Sons of London for $105,000, about twice the estimate. After the Cranach came the Rembrandt...
...Stiebel was representing the Cleveland Museum of Art; James Rorimer was bidding for the Met. The gentleman from Rosenberg & Stiebel did his bidding with a gesture of the hand, Rorimer with cocked thumb reinforced with a wink. After an eternal four minutes, Rorimer winked for the last time. The Rembrandt was his for $2,300,000, the highest known price ever paid for a painting anywhere...