Word: rembrandt
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...years experts have known that many of the works attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) were actually by his students or other admirers. One critic suspects that as many as 300 of the great Dutch artist's supposed 720 paintings are not actually Rembrandts. So far 170 have been reclassified, and last week came word that experts have determined that two more works were painted by someone else. Special neutron photography confirmed that The Man with the Golden Helmet, a beloved masterpiece housed at West Berlin's Staatliche museum, does not match known examples of Rembrandt's work. After...
...Bacon was entirely self-taught, and Picasso was hardly his only influence. Bacon's debt to Rembrandt's 1655 Carcass of Beef, for example, is obvious in his own renderings of raw meat. But when Bacon died in 1992, he left behind a London studio dominated by the reproductions, press clippings, published anecdotes and other worked-over memorabilia of one painter: Pablo Picasso. Such single-mindedness makes for a great two-person show...
...Louvre a few years ago, Livingstone said, she serendipitously stumbled across another stereoblind talent, Harmenszoon van Rijn Rembrandt, whose famous self-portraits plainly depicts a lazy left...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
Livingstone has since found that many other accomplished artists experienced the same condition as Rembrandt...