Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographs of X-ray shadowgraphs of paintings by Rembrandt, Titian, Giorgiene, and other great artists are shown in an exhibition of modern technical studies of art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum...
...Rembrandt versus...
Photographs on exhibition show the help given by the X-ray in determining whether certain paintings are the work of Rembrandt or of his pupil, Ferdinand Bol, who studied under the master from 1635 to 1641. On one disputed picture, a portrait of "Saskia," the shadow graphs indicate that the underpainting is probably the work of Bol, while the final surface painting is probably by Rembrandt. X-ray evidence shows that several paintings, once attributed to Rembrandt, may really prove to be the work of Bol, whose underpainting is cruder and less decisive than the master...
...examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
...second time this year certain members of Leverett House have had enough practical initiative and aesthetic sensibility to remove the capital "A" from the word "art." An average painting hanging on the wall of a House Common Room is of much more value than a most highly prized Rembrandt which leads a worthless and dusty existence in the middle of a blustering and pretentious museum. A museum is a noble project but instead of hosing art, it has upon its walls well-framed pieces of colored canvas, used primarily for research and study. A work of art is not simply...