Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., five hours before study cards were due, the professor of Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," walked up to the podium in the Fogg's Norton Lecture Hall and confronted an overflow crowd...
...dilemma faced by Slive and the sophomores in his "Rembrandt" class is but one example of the confusion and frustration generated by course lotteries in Core Curriculum classes over the past week...
...four Literature and Arts B courses which were lotteried, "Jazz," "Rembrandt," "Monuments of Japan" and "Modern Art and Abstraction," numbered about 1200 students after the lotteries were held...
This adamant adherence to his own artistic vision paralleled his egotism, which, even at a young age, was noted by his fellow schoolmates. Though his unquestionable talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...
...pastoral delight, installed in Venetian art by Giorgione (represented here with one rare, very rubbed drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies one Campagnola landscape; Rubens takes a motif from another, Rembrandt from a third. These hard, wiry- lined little engravings, with their slightly metallic nudes and sudden dark explosions of vegetation, are to the circulation of ideas about landscape what Marcantonio Raimondi's copies after Raphael are to the human figure: veritable talismans of influence...