Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
...acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south of the Mason-Dixon line) is built of marble taken from the temples of ancient Greece...
...Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series...
...around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head a magnificent subject for painting. Rembrandt should have painted it. William Hunt would have done it best justice among our own painters...
Similarly the newly collected cuts from the "Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein. "The Death of the Virgin" by Rembrandt, and works by Abraham Bosse tell much about the manner of life of people in the seventeenth century. Prints by Boucher and Fragonnard, flower designs for wall-paper and textiles after Pillemont, and a reproduction of Hogarth's "Marriage a la Mede" are illustrative of the decorative arts in the eighteenth century...