The Economist (US), October 22nd, 1988
THE reputation of a great painter can probably take a knock or two. That is as well, because Rembrandt is getting some bruising treatment. A new exhibition at the National Gallery in London has opened under the suspicion that two of its Rembrandts may be fakes; and if the paintings cannot be trusted, neither, it seems, can the man. Two newly published books-one a work of scholarship, one a novel-present Rembrandt as a grasping businessman, a grumbler, a tyrant in his studio and not much more than an economic conundrum on the streets of Amsterdam. Some revisionism may be traced to the long-ter...
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