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...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...
...grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin is a classroom bore. In the last years of his life, Caravaggio drew back from...
That’s when former Fogg Director Seymour Slive bought it for Harvard, Jordan said. “He comes across this painting, and he says it says Rembrandt on the bottom. And he says it’s not a Rembrandt price and others must have come to a conclusion that this is not a real Rembrandt...
Despite questions about its history, “Bust of Christ” is visible today on the second floor of the Fogg Museum, though the plaque to the right still reads “Rembrandt,” not “John Decker and Will Fowler...