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Friday, December 08, 2006
Smithsonian magazine on Rembrandt at 400
From Smithsonian magazine:
Had you traveled through any major city in the Netherlands this year, you would likely have met the piercing gaze of a rather startling face. The wild-haired, wide-eyed character who greeted you from street signs, store windows, magazine covers and chocolate boxes is Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69), master painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt’s incomparable art has always been a major selling point for Dutch tourism, but his self-portrait was everywhere in 2006 because Hollanders were celebrating the 400th birthday of their nation’s most famous artist. In fact, Rembrandt 400, a yearlong national event under the patronage of Queen Beatrix, touched off a worldwide celebration involving museums and cultural institutions from Krakow to Melbourne. Among American institutions taking part is the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where “Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings” will be on view through March 18, 2007.
(image: Stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, “Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galillee” has not been recovered. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
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