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...consists of 1,500 paintings valued at $150 million. It includes the only Leonardo da Vinci in private ownership, a lush portrait of a Florentine maiden called the Ginevra dei Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed to see only 75 of Franz Josef's lesser pictures, which are sandwiched into a modest building in Vaduz along with the tourist office and the national postage-stamp museum. The closest the Liechtenstein family comes to sharing its greatest paintings with...
...rest of the world, Dutch politics seems as sane and stolid as a Rembrandt burgher - and most of the time it is. Every few years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist France. In 1956 the governmental vacuum lasted for 122 days, while the old Cabinet carried on as caretaker. By last week, when Queen Juliana flew back from an Italian vacation to swear in new Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, the government had taken Dutch leave for 70 days...
...unreadable labels which we persist in affixing to antique frames." University art departments are also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya or the Rembrandt, to see how it holds up. If it doesn't, call Railway Express at once...
...becomes "furious. When an artist paints a Campbell's Soup can, he may be saying something valid, but he cuts himself out as an artist. He is no better than the can." Goodman's own idols have always been Velasquez, Vermeer, Goya-and Rembrandt: "He paints a head and it looks right through...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year attracted 4,291,200 visitors and topped even 1961, the memorable "year of the Rembrandt." when more than 1,000,000 saw the museum's bought-at-auction $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Chicago's Art Institute showed a nice rise to 884,500. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts got a 20% increase in attendance...