Today is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn. In honor, I give you The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) which is probably my favorite Rembrandt painting.
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For more on the painting, see here.
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Remember that controversy last year about the Jackson Pollack paintings that were found in a closet, only to have their authenticity dismissed by a physics professor who used "fractal analysis" to prove that they were "substantially different" from real Pollack paintings?
This guest post was written by Mona S. Rowe, science writer for Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and NSLS-II.
An interesting post from Repository for Bottled Monsters gathers together a few links on art/exhibit censorship, like this opinion,
One hundred works of art from the Rijksmuseum, including some by Rembrandt, are going on very limited tour of the U.S. Here are the details:
Dayton Art Institute September 24, 2006 - January 7, 2007
Phoenix Art Museum January 28, 2007 - May 6, 2007
Portland Art Museum May 16, 2007 - September 16, 2007
The exhibit "Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art" is now at the Phoenix Art Museum through May 6. Ticket details are available here.