Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandeur I played around with"), and the formidable sight of old Pierpont eating his breakfast ("Gosh . . . whew! It was huge"). But mostly Belle's days were spent in her library, bustling in brocade along the corridors ("Where the hell's The City of God?"), rustling among the Rembrandt etchings or answering letters from scholars and collectors all over the world...
About 1930, on an impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
...teachers to take. He sat at the back of the life class with a huge paintbox by his side, doing studies three times as big as anyone else's. Instead of pumping his instructors he wandered alone in the Louvre, picked up a lot from looking at Rembrandt and the Spaniards...
...kind of works most admired by him. Forty different museums, galleries, and private collections loaned the exhibits to the Museum. They are examples only of European masters from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries, including "old favorites" and rare, but lesser known works. Names like Michelangelo, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Van Dyck adorn the canvasses...
...Self Portrait" of 1648 is a highlight in the section on portraiture and in one example of the self-portraiture which was a vital force in the artist's life. Rembrandt did his own portrait at least twice a year, an unparalleled record...