Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow, the only monument was a single synagogue. About 100 old men, their Rembrandt faces limned by faith, prayed as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. Here Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, 34, deputy director of the commission, read from Lamentations...
...festivals abound, the Aquarium and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Gardner Museum is most interesting in winter, when baby's breath bloom throughout the skylighted inner courtyard. A replica of a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Gardner houses an impressive collection of Oriental rugs and pieces by Rembrandt, Matisse, Whistler and Sargent. Three days a week it sponsors concerts...
...virtues of the art of painting. Chardin has long been a painter's painter, studied-and, when his work was cheap, collected-by other artists. He deeply affected at least three of the founders of modernism, Cėzanne, Matisse and Braque, and Van Gogh compared him to Rembrandt. What seized them in his work was not the humility of its subject matter so .much as its ambition as pure painting. The mediation between the eye and the world that Chardin's canvases propose is inexhaustible...
...zannes worth $3 million were stolen from the Art Institute of Chicago. On Christmas morning, bold cat burglars penetrated the security system of San Francisco's M.H. De Young Memorial Museum and left through a skylight with $1.2 million worth of 17th century Dutch paintings, including a prized Rembrandt, Portrait of a Rabbi...
...made, supervised and signed by an artist. Some original prints became almost as costly as master paintings. But prints were not reproductions. Photos or postcards could not satisfy the thirst for status. They were not exclusive; they were, in fact, genuinely democratic. Anyone could pin a postcard of a Rembrandt on the wall, for pennies. Hence the invention of another class of object, a chimera begotten by greed upon insecurity: the expensive reproduction, in a nominally "limited" edition that can actually go as far as 100,000 copies or more. These clones are a strange breed...