Volume 35, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1989
How Rembrandt Made It
By David Freedberg
Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market
by Svetlana Alpers
University of Chicago Press, 160 pp., $29.95
'Rembrandt is in the news again,' Svetlana Alpers's challenging book begins. The reason for such attention, she continues, 'used to be the discovery of a new painting by the master, or the purchase of an old one at a record-breaking price. But today it is the discovery that many attributions of pictures to him are false.'
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