Word: rembrandt
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...also decide what to make of Visconti's frequent use of chiaroscuro. Is there any further point, beyond mere decoration in all that flickering night light? Shadows shift and fade so often that at first I thought the print might be faulty. But no. Apparently Visconti wanted to "put Rembrandt on film." That is, he took a painterly technique and set it in motion. Intellectually this may sound fine, but it doesn't make much sense on the screen unless the director supports the tone of his narrative with it. In this case, he made me squint...
...reached within $980.000 of the cut-rate $2,240,000 that the academy is now willing to settle for. Prime Minister Macmillan thereupon announced that the government would pay the difference. The charcoal drawing thus just misses topping the price of the most expensive oil painting ever sold−Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, which Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art bought for $2,300,000 at auction last fall...
While his men move earth and change skylines in city after city, Cotton lives the country squire's life on his Buckinghamshire estate on the Thames, gardening and admiring his art collection (Rembrandt, Renoir), in a manner appropriate for a man of property...
...When Rembrandt's St. Bartholomew was sold at Sotheby's fortnight ago for $532,000-fifth highest auction price ever paid for a painting-the buyer was Agnew's, a London art firm. But Agnew's was merely acting for Oilman J. Paul Getty, 69, who let it slip last week that he now had the masterpiece hanging in his Sutton Place mansion outside London...
Major Lennox admits to a certain affection for his paintings, but once, when a Rembrandt fell off the wall, his chief concern was whether it had disturbed the budgerigar. "I'm not an artistic sort of chap," he says forthrightly. "Don't understand pictures at all." He sold the Rembrandt to keep up his 14,000-acre estate on which he farms, raises sheep, cattle and daffodils. The daffodils are his real passion. He grows 200 varieties, and says with greater pride than when speaking of his art collection: "I don't know where you could find...