Word: rembrandt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heavy-footed guards creaked slowly up and down the Amsterdam Ryks Museum last week before a row of Rembrandt van Rijn's great canvases. If they noticed a little, shabby, middle-aged Dutchman in a loose overcoat standing nervously before Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson, they paid little attention to him. A minute later they did. The little Dutchman had suddenly produced a small ax, was furiously hacking the Anatomy Lesson to ribbons. Quietly he submitted to arrest. At the station house he said he was 46 years old, that his name was Anceaux. Bluntly he refused to give any explanation...
Correspondents and foreign editors quickly confused the slashed picture with Rembrandt's great Anatomy Lesson by Dr. Tulp which, safe and sound at The Hague last week, is as well known as Rembrandt's Night Watch. The Amsterdam Lesson shows but three figures?the lecturer, a Dr. Deyman, the corpse, strongly foreshortened with its large, pale feet pointing at the spectator, and an assistant gingerly holding a piece of skull. Last week's was not its first misadventure. In 1723 it was nearly destroyed by fire; only Dr. Deyman, the corpse and the hands of the assistant were preserved...
Professor Arthur Mayger Hind's concluding lecture on Rembrandt will be given tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This talk, which brings to a close the series which has been given by the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry this year, is titled "Conclusion," and will round out the others...
Probably the best known painting is the "Portrait of an Old Man," by Rembrandt. Another rare accession is the "Portrait of a Lady" by Peter Paul Rubens, shown on this page...
...first of a series of three lectures on Rembrandt will be given at 8 o'clock tonight in New Lectures Hall by Professor A. M. Hind...