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Beautiful Wrinkles. Eakins was almost too honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of boaters, swimmers and boxers-superb studies of water and muscle in motion-scorned the theatricality of the Hudson River school. His portraits were so penetrating that few prominent Philadelphians would even sit for him. One man explained: "He would bring out all the traits of my character that I have...
Professor Eugene Rochow's Black Magic 1 (Chemistry 1 in the catalogue) comes at 11--unquestionably the most engaging show since Merlin. He is rivalled, however, by another barker, Associate Professor Seymour ("And that's Rembrandt--more of him later: but now, tell you what I'm gonna do") Slive who offers this term a course on the dutch painters of the seventeenth century (Fine Arts...
...Rembrandt, Schmitt...
...Mantegna was a pivotal figure in the art of northern Italy, but his influence spread beyond. Rembrandt for a time used his work as a model, and in the month of September 1506. Albrecht Diirer set out for Mantua just to meet him. Diirer was too late. Before he ar rived, the old master of Mantua died of apoplexy...
...Rembrandt, Schmitt...