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...Loon's van Rijn...
...better than the 20th"), Van Loon long planned a life of Rembrandt, whom he considers greatest Dutchman of his time. This is it. Written in the form of the diary of Van Loon's mythical great-great-great-grandfather, an Amsterdam physician, great & good friend of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, the book is a voluminous (570 pages), discursive, far-from-formal narrative in which Rembrandt is a major figure but the great-great-great-grandfather the hero...
...Rembrandt van Rijn sat down to paint his own picture. Often had he done it before; often was he to do it again. Most profound artists are introverts, seekers of their own devious mysteries. In the mirror Rembrandt studied his greenish, fur-lined cloak, his quietly folded hands. But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that...
...great painters, one of the supposedly most productive was Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn (1606-1669). In the galleries of the world, 800 paintings of knights, beggars, saints, painters, are signed in a dark scrawl, Rembrandt f* There are 1,600 drawings, cornered with the same letters, 300 etchings. For nearly 300 years the world has been assured that these letters did not lie, that the energy which the Dutchman put into the figures on his canvas had enabled him also to produce a superhuman number of pictures. Yet there have been at times doubts cast on the genuineness of some...
...Gentleman with a High Hat; a Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan. Secure in an elegance which time has not soiled, these two look out from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself...