Word: rembrandt
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...Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt at the Mauritshuis. There, 20 years later, a young French critic named Thoré-Bürger was so struck by it that he decided to set about recovering Vermeer's lost paintings and opening the eyes of the world to the forgotten master from Delft...
Delft, today best known for its china, was then the home of many other important painters-notably Jan Steen, who recorded a lustier side of Dutch life, and Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's pupils who may have been Vermeer's teacher. In fact, a local bard, on the occasion of Fabritius' early death, portrays Vermeer, then only 22, as the phoenix who would rise to greatness in his place...
Captain Frans Banning Cocq's watchmen? Rembrandt's Nightwatch is all we know of them. Napoleon's coronation? Jacques Louis David's massive painting is the permanent report. French firing squads at work in Spain in 1808? Goya's painting, both witness and indictment, has fixed the image for all time. The court of Philip of Spain? On courtesans, and dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging...
...ripped off by shrapnel in World War I, he existed afterward by odd jobs -until 1928, when he sold his first picture to the Berliner Tageblatt. He had been using a camera since the age of twelve (his first subject: the family bathroom), studied light in the works of Rembrandt and Rubens. But it was his ability to be at the right place at the right time, plus millisecond timing, that by 1931 made him the Associated Press's star Berlin photographer, the man who caught the mature genius in 14-year-old Yehudi Menuhin and recorded the cautious...
Thinly disguised for a time as a charwoman, Audrey plays the daughter of a fine old French family with a congenital weakness for forging old masters. Papa is Hugh Griffith, a shaggy rogue whose wickedly rolling orbs make him look like a cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt portrait. Griffith has turned Sunday painting into a world-famous collection of Cezannes, Van Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand...