Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection has some indubitably good things in it. Its highlights run from Rembrandt Peale's stiff but historically interesting Porthole Portrait of George Washington and Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze...
Michelangelo has it. So does Rembrandt. And students really want...
...billion yen. This was the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The multimillion-dollar marvel is now a commonplace of the '80s: a Turner went for $10 million in 1984, a Mantegna for $10.4 million and a Van Gogh for $9.9 million in 1985, and a Rembrandt for $10.3 million and a Manet for $11 million in 1986. Nevertheless, this one brought in more than three times the previous record established in 1983 with the sale of the 12th century illuminated Gospels of Henry the Lion for $11.9 million...
...courses in the past have also incorporated exhibits at Harvard museums, Zerner said, adding that the fall course Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and his Contemporaries," also puts together a show to supplement reading and lectures...
...features portraits from 3000 B.C. to the 1980s by artists from Sumeria to Renaissance Europe to modern America. Zerner said he plans to use examples from the portraits on display to demonstrate the development of the portrait from the stereotypical style of the ancient Egyptians to the detail of Rembrandt...