Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week exhibition of some of Rembrandt's rarest and most valuable works opened yesterday at the Fogg Art Museum. The display celebrates publication by the University press of a two-volume work on Rembrandt by Professor Jakob Rosenberg, Curator of Prints at the Museum...
...exhibition consists of eleven important paintings, mostly portraits and sixty etchings by the seventeenth century Dutch artist. The selections have been chosen to give an impression of Rembrandt's realism and powerful imagination...
...Rembrandt "was himself an omnivorous collector whose eyes and appetites were, unfortunately, larger than his pocketbook . . . Not only was he a collector of paintings and drawings by the old masters . . . but his collection of prints contained a working library of ideas and iconographical suggestions. Moreover his passion for antique busts was rivaled only by his interest in weapons and ethnological specimens from America and the Indies. His paintings further show that he kept a vast costumery; among these were the magnificent vestments . . . which appear in his studies of Jewish rabbis and in the Biblical scenes...
...small, Rembrandt-like study of a bearded old Jew outshone some of the more ambitious canvases. Band had illuminated the hoary, disconsolate head as if with a Gestapo searchlight (see cut). Journalist Pierre van Paassen has said that with such somber understatements Band has "indicted a civilization." But Band takes a differing view of his work. "Although I paint sadness," he says, "I don't paint 'against' anyone. There can be no hatred in art. I paint the oppressed only because I love him; never do I paint the oppressor...
...revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...