Word: tulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rembrandt also inherited a hardy tradition of Dutch portrait painting. His achievement was to take the stiff, official portrait, change it into a dramatic scene, filled with inner excitement that holds the spectator's eye even today. His first great success. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, done when he was only 26, established him as one of the foremost painters of Amsterdam, and brought him a flood of portrait commissions from the city's wealthy burghers...
...generations because of its air of midnight mystery. Under decades of dust, soot and varnish was a picture painted in the clear morning light, filled with bright colors and contrasts. Last week The Hague's Mauritshuis displayed another cleaned-up Rembrandt masterpiece: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the Dutch master's first great group portrait, painted in 1632 when he was 26. The results were equally startling...
...past three centuries, resumed its original form. An anatomical diagram was discovered on the sheet of paper that one man was holding. X-ray photographs revealed more. A face at the top of the group had apparently been painted in after the picture was completed. The refined-looking Dr. Tulp had originally been a coarse-featured Dutchman. Restorers could not uncover the original face, however, for fear of destroying the painting...
Critics admitted that in at least one instance retouchers had improved on Rembrandt. Still struggling with problems of perspective, the young painter had done a poor job on Dr. Tulp's chair. A later painter had straightened it out. Strangest discovery of all: some retoucher, evidently not liking the look of Rembrandt's original signature, had covered it over with a carefully traced duplicate...