Word: rembrandt
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...later, in London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...
...worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite in Manhattan...
...muted chamber music produced by Philadelphia's Raphaelle Peale, one of the two best U.S. still-life painters, was almost neurotically strict. He was born into a painting family in 1774; his father and uncle were both artists, and his brother Rembrandt won lasting fame as a portrait painter. Peale, who became a heavy drinker, was ill most of his sober hours, and Author Born thinks that this may have helped him as a painter. Sickness, he reasons, "may become a constructive element in so far as it forces the artist to be more direct, more concise and more...
...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...
...like a native. "The movies are no more commercial," declared Lewis, "than any other form of art. . . . There's no reason to suppose that a poor man starving in a garret writes better than a rich man living in a mansion. . . . Human beings are 100% commercial as hell. . . . Rembrandt was one of the most commercial bastards that ever lived...