Rembrandt as literary critic
Howard Wallace has been delving ‘artfully’ into the biblical stories that fascinated Rembrandt. Howard writes: The National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of two paintings by Rembrandt does not give a …
‘Jokesmithery’ in the Golden Age
Writing in 1973, the art historian Ernst Gombrich (somewhat portentously) noted: ‘In … the history of art, we have become intolerably earnest. A false prestige has come to be attached …
To fall with your nose in butter
I have never fancied myself as a matchmaker but occasionally I meet people and think: “I reckon I know someone that you would get on with really well. I think …