The Metropolitan Museum, like other museums around the world, are planning to “reattribute” several of its Rembrandts. Many scholars feel that de-attribution has gone too far.

When the Metropolitan Museum’s Thomas P. F. Hoving dropped the word recently that the Met was planning to “reattribute” several of its Rembrandts, there was a gasp from museumgoers. Fake Rembrandts at the Metropolitan, of all places? It seemed altogether too shocking to be believed. But art scholars in Rembrandt’s…

350 years ago Rembrandt was born. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings.

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci towered over the masters of the Italian Renaissance. To mark the…

Last week in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, went on view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place.

The great Dutchman, Rembrandt, lived in Amsterdam most of his life, put into his greatest pictures the faces of Amsterdam’s burghers, surgeons, soldiers. Last week in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, went on view more indisputable Rembrandt pictures than have ever been seen before in one place. Included…