Word: rembrandt
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...refute charges of looting, has thrown open to public view the Hermitage, Leningrad, renowned Museum and Art Gallery of the Romanoffs. Once more is revealed the enormous wealth, hoarded through centuries, on which the old regime rested. In the Hermitage are exhibited 45 of the greatest paintings of Rembrandt and a collection of Persian objets d'art that is indubitably the finest in the world, both in the number and the quality of the pieces. Golden daggers from Turkestan, jade seals, incense-burners embellished with rubies, pots set with a thousand emeralds, and blades from Damascus curved like evil...
...July 4 an important auction at Christie's will dispose of a newly authenticated Rembrandt, Two Men Conversing, with certificates attached, and 63 of the Duke of Westminster's collection, including important canvases by Rubens, Van Dyck, Bellini, Murillo, Raphael, del Sarto, Titian, Veronese...
...Duke of Westminster decided to sell 50 paintings from his famed collection. The event is to take place at Christie's in London early in July. The collection includes works of Murillo, Teniers, Cuyp, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Wouwerman, Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velasquez, Brouwer, Turner. The two examples of Rubens are the Adoration of the Magi and The Fathers of the Church...
...Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other, and looking, even in those utterly English surroundings, like a Dutch burgomaster just released from Rembrandt's studio after a long sitting...
...Rembrandt etchings will be on exhibition for about a month...