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this week opened a "computer center" at Princeton. The building is a large stone house built in 1947 by two well-heeled Philadelphia sisters to house a 12 ft. by 14 ft. copy of Rembrandt's Night Watch...
...says Hinks, Caravaggio "might even have diverted the whole course of seicento [17th century] painting." Even as it was, he inspired dozens of later masters. Rubens borrowed from his swirling, figure-full compositions; Vermeer took over and refined his trick of illuminating dim interiors with dramatic shafts of light; Rembrandt adapted to deeper use his habit of painting the faces of real people mysteriously veiled in shadow; Georges de La Tour appropriated his favored color scheme (red on black); Velasquez, the realest of realists, gained conviction from Caravaggio's absolute devotion to nature...
...painted at the height of his powers, he turned out a picture that is as solid and durable as anything done in the last 100 years. The portrait of a skilled and self-respecting artisan, it has glowing warmth and quiet dignity. In spirit, the picture harks back to Rembrandt; in technique, it points forward to cubism...
...longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum. Unlike many private collections, which tend to second-rate paintings by first-rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing St. Andrew, done in contrasting hues of grey, blue and green. The El Greco, now shown in the U.S. for the first time...
...Spanish and French paintings and Renaissance furniture was grandly laid out. Now the property of Robert Lehman (investment banking), the collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows a poignantly...