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...have missed the lottery for Seymour Slive's class Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, but you can still see the works of this master. In conjunction with the class, the Fogg is presenting an intimate exhibit of works by Rembrandt and others in a two-part showing. The first of these skillfully displays 17th century Dutch drawings and etchings. and are of a remarkable quality...
...exhibit deserves attention for a uniformly high quality of the pieces and the juxtaposition of Rembrandt with other artists of the period who depict similar themes...
...collected pictures are delicate and intriguing, illustrating the combination of realism and Baroque drama prominent in Rembrandt's work. The pieces range from Rembrandt's high Baroque style to his later, lyric pictures. The majority of the etchings are biblical scenes, a favorite genre of Rembrandt, of a remarkable quality...
Before his death, Hammer claimed the collection was worth $450 million, but most of it is junk: a mishmash of second- or third-rate work by famous names. The Rembrandt Juno is one of his weakest paintings -- large, flat and gross. The Rubens Adoration of the Shepherds may not be by Rubens at all; the Titian, not by Titian. The Leonardo pages, installed in a sort of dim mortuary chapel of their own, look ridiculously anticlimactic. The Impressionist work is as dull as could be. And, except for the Van Gogh and one early Gauguin, so is the more modern...
PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGE by Colin Eisler (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $85). Catherine the Great started it. She acquired important paintings, and her collection became the nucleus of the Leningrad museum. Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso: no visitor has seen all that is pictured here; the book itself amounts to a work...