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Professor Hind's constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...
...author himself says, the book gathers together certain thoughts about art around a figure whose work is eminently human in its appeal and comprehensive in character. In a lifetime almost completely devoted to the study of Rembrandt, he has discovered many interesting things about the artist which were never adapted to his more detailed studies. And so in this work he has limited himself to a few seemingly unconnected topics, Rembrandt's Academy and the work of his followers, his treatment of portraits and landscape painting, his draughtsmanship, and his genius...
...hackers are a recurring phenomenon. Several years ago in the Ryks Museum in Amsterdam, Rembrandt's Night Watch had a hole torn in it. Last year in the same museum a little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed...
...paid its rent last week. While a London art dealer was refusing $10,500 for a Rembrandt and a New York dealer was taking $20,000 for a Picasso, nearly 400 painters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village at the foot of Fifth Avenue, stood their paintings on the sidewalk and sold 1,700 of them in nine days for over $9,700, plus groceries, dental work, shaves, baby shoes. The dealer took a commission on the Picasso, but the $9,700 went direct from manufacturer to consumer...
...Rembrandt: The North Nations," Professor Edgell, Fogg Large Room...