Dutch-and-Flemish-art

Visual Arts: In Rembrandt’s Footsteps

June 15, 2011
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How many painters were taught by Rembrandt? How big was his school? Well, that is a matter for debate — to echo Donald Rumsfeld, there are the known unknowns. Then there are the unknown unknowns

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Visual Arts: Sanitizing Black Is Beautiful

July 28, 2008
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By Gary Schwartz One in so many Western works of art contains an image of a person we would call black. The phenomenon attracts relatively little attention in art history. The Menil Foundation went after it seriously, in a project now inherited by the Warburg Institute. An exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam offers…

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