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DOUBLE Dutch ; The National Gallery's claims for its new exhibition of portraits from Holland's Golden Age are ludicrously inflated - yet still, there are sublime works to be seen
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FOR the first time ever, a major exhibition will trace the
development of Dutch portrait painting in the 17th century." It was
with this boast that the National Gallery announced this summer's
entertainment in its gloomy cellars, and to such absurd hyperbole my
response was a snort of disbelief. Looking back over my life and a
hundred exhibitions here and there devoted to Holland's Golden Age,
it seems that Dutch portraiture has been so much a constant as to
have become a bore. Ever since 195...
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The secrets behind the faces; Dutch portraits.
The Economist (US)
; Van Heythuysen sets his own price Rembrandt, Hals and their contemporaries on show in London WILLEM VAN HEYTHUYSEN leans back in his chair looking for all the world as if he has just won several million dollars. Which in a sense he has. This small oil panel by Frans Hals (shown below) has a complex
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Dutch Portraits National Gallery ; Five best London shows
The Independent - London
; The first golden age of the bourgeoisie, as depicted by Rembrandt and his contemporaries. To 16 Sept
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Dressed to impress ; The National Gallery is getting ready to celebrate Dutch portraiture of the Golden Age. Tom Lubbock assesses the discreet charms of the burghers in their Sunday best
The Independent - London
; Take nakedness. In life, except among your nearest and dearest, you may hardly ever meet a naked body. You know where to find them, sure; and perhaps you spend more time than I do in communal showers, strip joints, nudist resorts and life-drawing classes, and go to better parties, too. Still, to
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Triumph for National Gallery
Evening Standard - London
; THE National Gallery today revealed its most expensive acquisitions of the year to date - two masterpieces of the Florentine artist Pesellino costing 3.45 million. According to gallery director Neil McGregor the cassone panels of The Story of David and Goliath and The Triumph of David and Saul,
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The National Gallery of Canada Foundation Receives the Most Important Financial Gift of its History!
CCNMatthews Newswire
; OTTAWA, ONTARIOCCNMatthews - June 20, 2006) - The National Gallery of Canada Foundation is extremely proud to announce an extraordinary gift of $2 million dollars for the creation of The Audain Endowment for Contemporary Canadian Art. The Audain Foundation, a British Columbia-based family trust,
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