Word: rembrandt
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...case, it's too big." In what had been billed as the major sale of old Dutch masters since World War II, London's Christie's gallery last week hoped to get a fortune for its client -especially since the lot included Rembrandt's "lost" Juno. But after an agonizing period of unenthusiastic bidding, the auctioneer finally declared: "Fifty thousand guineas [$147,000], Himmelheid." Himmelheid was only a name-a face-saving fiction for Rembrandt's battered and fading goddess, whom no one wanted enough to put up the 100,000 guineas the sellers...
...basements of the world's great museums, hundreds of men in white smocks are working feverishly, day in and day out, at "restoring" art masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer...
...point of numbers, Rubens dominates the Pinakothek, with no less than 74 examples. Van Dyck comes next with 26, and Rembrandt has ten. Such Italians as Titian, Tintoretto and Raphael are splendidly if sparsely represented. But the real heart of the museum is Dürer and the northerners he influenced...
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). About 60 paintings of Rembrandt van Ryn are used to illustrate Rembrandt and the Gospel...
Britain's National Gallery last week announced the purchase of a huge and handsome Rembrandt for upwards of $400,000. An equestrian portrait, 8 by 10 ft., the canvas had already been whisked off to the gallery laboratories for the tricky and controversial business of cleaning and re-lining, would not be shown to the public for some months. Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy was exuberantly frank about his purchase: "Much the grandest Rembrandt we have...