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...Germanic Museum is ending the season with an exhibit of Dutch landscape, genre, and still life painting of the seventeenth century, that illustrates the extraordinary versatility and skill of the painters of Holland in this period...
...whole has astounding variety and range of interest. It supports Dr. Valentiner's statement that "no other country or period has been so rich in artistic individualities, or created so many excellent works of art worthy of our interest and enthusiasm, as the Dutch school of the seventeenth century...
...could properly appreciate the genius of Richelieu unless he had stared long at the portrait of the Cardinal that hangs on the sepurchral walls of the Louvre. This is probably one of the truest of his statements. Philip de Chamaigne has clothed the greatest diplomat and statesman of the seventeenth century in an undying personality. The great Duke stands there, hand outstretched with its tendril fingers searching the air. There is the thin Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown...
...third and last of the concerts to be given by the Seventeenth Century Concert Ensemble this season will be held in the Germanic Music in Cambridge at eight o'clock tomorrow evening...
Many early prints are to be found in the room. Four colored wood-cuts from the 1483 "Nuremberg Bible" are the oldest objects present. There is an impression in its second state of Rembrandt's etching "St. Peter and St. John at the Gate of the Temple". The seventeenth century French portrait engravers are represented by Edelinck and Pierre Drevet in their "Jean Andre" and "Andre Rercules" respectively. Prints from the studies of Hogarth, Barlom, and Oadry are also on display...