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Rembrandt

Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”

In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius’ painting “The Goldfinch” and the fleeting nature of, well, everything comes together for a brief and shining moment.

By: Clea Simon Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Clea Simon, contemporary, Donna Tartt, Fabritius, fiction, Frick Museum, Portrait of an Old Man, Rembrandt, The Goldfinch

Visual Arts: Bureaucratic Vandalism and the Survival of Sheer Excellence

In order to pay tribute to the supreme Frits Lugt and his Fondation Custodia — and to protest the announced closing of the Institut Néerlandais with which it is joined — the column describes an example of Lugt’s collecting genius.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Constantijn à Renesse, Fondation Custodia, Frits Lugt, Maarssen, Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt, Schwartzlist

Visual Arts Feature: Rembrandt, Rubens, the Beau Sancy, and the Jew

The history of the Beau Sancy took me back to the years around 1640, when it passed into and out of the orbit of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the day, the Dutchman Rembrandt and the Brabander Rubens.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alfonso Lopéz, Beau Sancy, Rembrandt, Rubens, Schwartzlist

Visual Arts: Chopped liver at Woburn Abbey

The world press has announced that a painting of an old man in Woburn Abbey, England, has been newly discovered to be an authentic Rembrandt. Gary Schwartz is incensed that the abbey is practicing such flagrant spin, and that the press feeds it to us so uncritically.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Rembrandt, Schwartzlist, Woburn Abbey

Visual Arts: In Rembrandt’s Footsteps

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

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Dutch-17th-century-painting, Dutch-and-Flemish-art, Rembrandt, Rembrandt school, Schwartzlist

Visual Arts: The Transparent Connoisseur 2

The issues might seem highly technical and of interest only to specialists, but I think they do matter. In the first place they matter as a corrective to our understanding of Rembrandt, but they also matter for the critical insights they offer into the techniques and practices of scholarship. By Gary Schwartz Earlier columns were […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: drawings, Gary-Schwartz, Getty Museum, Rembrandt, Schwartzlist

Visual Arts: Rembrandt’s Imagination

I envision Rembrandt with chalk or pen always at hand, sketching from life and imagination constantly. This is also how he taught his pupils, who like him also produced numerous drawings related and unrelated to paintings or prints. Why do so many experts disagree? By Gary Schwartz In an earlier column I illustrated a large […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: drawing, Gary-Schwartz, Rembrandt, rembrandt-research-project, Schwartzlist, Visual Arts

Visual Arts: At Rembrandt’s Core, The Drawings

How many drawings by Rembrandt are around? More than many experts admit. The issue is not just a quibble over numbers. It has far-reaching consequences for our reconstruction of Rembrandt’s working method and our understanding of his art. The showdown is coming at a conference on the artist at the J. Paul Getty Museum in […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: drawings, Gary-Schwartz, Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt, rembrandt-research-project, Schwartzlist

Visuals Arts: Rembrandt and I in Oman

It cannot be said that the average Omani was waiting for an exhibition of Rembrandt etchings. By Gary Schwartz “Frankincense from Oman and paintings by Rembrandt were both part of the good life in the 17th century.” That unlikely quotation is from the script of a film that I wrote and presented this summer to […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Amsterdam, Gary-Schwartz, Muscat, Oman, Rembrandt, Rembrandt House, Schwartzlist

Visual Arts: The Cotswolds Rembrandt

em>The initial reactions by Rembrandt specialists to the Cotswolds painting were nearly all marked by caution.

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Cotswolds, Gary-Schwartz, Rembrandt, rembrandt-research-project, Schwartzlist, Visual Arts

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