Word: rembrandt
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...immense Royal Collection (10,000 pictures, they say, with 30,000 drawings and half a million prints), better sampled in the galleries outside the palace that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy...
...Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded, en masse, through an empty stage set. Nobody here but us tourists. What...
...Year cover has spent years traveling the globe capturing images of world leaders, celebrities and members of vanishing primitive tribes. His style is well suited to such serious subject matter -- intimate pictures using textured backgrounds that give his work a painterly quality reminiscent of Rembrandt's emotional canvases of the kings and prophets of the Bible. "The format is respectful," says Coupon. "Therefore what you have is a more revealing portrait of a person...
George and Maida Abrams, the owners of the pieces in the show, have spent years amassing a large collection of drawings. The exhibit includes works by de Gheyn, van Ostade and Rembrandt and his pupils, among others. These drawings were valued in 17th century Holland as independent works; in other countries, such pieces were merely preliminary sketches for paintings...
...work of Rembrandt and his contemporaries and pupils makes up a substantial part of the Abrams' collection. An exhibition tag written by the Curator of Drawings William W. Robinson says that in the 1630s, Rembrandt developed his technique by creating hundreds of studies and drawings. His style juxtaposes "summarily indicated areas" in the subject's body with "intricately detailed penwork" that creates an expressive face. Rembrandt's pupils Doomer, Backer and Flinck reflected their mentor's style in their work. The exhibit contains six similar works by these artists--sketchy yet expressive chalk figure drawings on blue paper...