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Rembrandt's "Danae" painted in 1636

Don't let the sihouette look of this nude fool you, for we all know Rembrandt could paint better than that.

REMBRANDT'S (The Danae) OIL ON CANVAS DOCUMENTED DATE OF PAINTING 1636.

 Size 126cm x 151cm

Well, just maybe the way that he painted her was for his eyes only along with a few others who might have known or had eyes simular to his own who could see what he was trying to do.

 This painting was attributed to an unknown Dutch artist by a Los Angles Museum and was traced back coming across the oregon trail, and it was considered to be antique in the early 1800's with some provenance that has been lost over the years. The painting I believe had hung in Rembrandt's art studio for over 20 years after he evidentially had given it away to his Lordship, the most gracious, Mr. Constantijn Huygens. This was a gift for him for obtaining Rembrandt a commission from the stadtholder himself of the United Provinces. Rembrandt received this commission in 1634 for the three theme paintings on the passion of Christ, and it took over four years in finishing them for delivery.

 Mean while, Frederick Henry would not let Huygens have a moments peace, the Amsterdam Burgomaster, not until he received these three commissions. Needless to say, Huygens had Rembrandts gift returned immediately even before he unpacked it from the wood crate that it was delivered in. He told him that he didn't need any favors from him, and he damn sure wasn't doing him any more!

 I do believe that Rembrandt took this returning of the work of art to heart, while not understanding completely the meaning of the returned gift. He would show it to his students and pupils, so that they would not make the same mistake that he did, and by this, I mean the silhouette look of young Danae. This is the young nude body of the daughter of the Greek King standing behind her, her father, the King of Argos from Greek Mythology. I over heard a comment from a viewer talking to her friend saying that she could not lye that way, even when she was younger, and I had to laugh to myself under my breath. I wanted to say, you had better be careful not to squint your eyes while looking at her, for you could more than likely find her lying in the dangerous ways that possibly you have many times before in your life.

 The danae is documented as being sold at Rembrandt's bankruptcy auction in 1658, as item # 347, one large painting of "The Danae".  It is now attributed by myself, Bob Miller to this great artist Rembrandt, one who seems today of loosing about 90% of his original works of art confirmed by these supposed art experts and historians of the Rembrandt Research Project, mostly paintings which have been concidered to have been his and done by his own hand for years and sometimes centuries. 

Rembrandt: The Danae

 One look at the Danae welcoming the golden shower, or whatever Rembrandt meant to call this glowing nude of a young girl lying on the gilded couch that she is lying on and definitely talked about in those way by one who were noted as seeing it. This alone should prove that the recovery of the Danae is now complete. It is a work of utter innocence, the theatricality of impregnation by Zeus as she is being visited by her father, King Acrisius as she is locked in her chambers.

 Splendid as it is with its shimmering white and its flickering of gold vemillion, it remained in the world and of the world. All that was in the painting lay within the grasp of man - joy, its remembrance of joy, and the promise of its renewal; and these needed no exaggeration. The lips parted and the breasts swelled and the warm belly held the honey colored shadows in its tender hollows. The thighs lay softly against each other, and the moist, luxuriant triangle widened beneath the see-through silk and above her Zeus',.... for love itself wasn't enough as said,... more than enough, for Zeus is actually there.

The four apprentices who were working in the young master's studio in those days had taught themselves to talk about the painting in the safe terminology of the painter's trade not to offend or reveal the secret which Rembrandt included in the sihouettetion of the body. One of them would invite you to walk up to it under the pretext of seeing how delicately the halftones carried the brilliant light into the deepest shade. Another would ask you whether you had noticed the marvelous difference between the inanimate softness of the silken materials and the pillows, and the living resilience of the flesh, while a third would join in with feverish enthusiasm about how the hair drew in the vibrant reds, the deep rich browns, and the flickering and gleaming gold. The fourth would tell how the canvas spoke directly to the viewer, unashamedly, and with gratefulness of the inexhaustible delights of Love.

So again I say, while the fourth apprentice almost blowing it and coming so damn close in giving the secret completely away,.... this painting should now be proof that the recover of "The Danae" of Rembrandt's is now definitely complete.

This above is a small example of the yellow gold shower of vermilion's Rembrandt used as a representaion of Zeus attack of impregnation of the Danae.  For goodness sakes don't forget to look at the craqulars in the paint and the warring out and deterioration of the canvas behind it.

Outside his lost, removed, or exchanged signatures, Rembrandt had his own protective way to deterime who the correct artist was on down the road. He was very much aware of what went on in the field of fine art and understood completely how peoples eyes worked.

A drawing study of "The Danae", to where the King's Orical, or should I say fortune teller looks to be appologizing to him for telling the King he would be killed by a grandson. No less,.. this was said right in front of the only means of a grandson,... the princess Danae, and she looks to be weeping.  On her right is her father with his ceptor in hand and a pretty good representation of him sitting on his throne in the right-hand bottom corner.  In the left-hand upper corner is where these vermillions are swooping in as the shower of gold and going straight to the representation of the attact presented in the tablecloth at the middle bottom.

Rembrandt Drawing

Definition: Drawing study for the Mythological tale of  "The Danae".

After Persius cut the head off of the Medusa, Danae and her son was granted passage back to Argos. Danae goes and finds her father in the bottom right of the drawing and brings him reluctantly to the games, where her son Persius entered the tri-Tryathlon games and is throwing the discus.  When his turn came the heavy missile swerved and fell amongst the spectators where his grandfather was sitting and he was struck by the discus. The blow he received was fatal, and he was killed immediately. Middle top; A study of Danae, when she was locked up.  Top left:  A study of her father at the time he was King. Bottom left: Danae standing by watching the angel take her father away in the middle because he did not kill his grandson and her to protect himself.  So Apollo's oracle was once again proven right.

 

mysteries of authentication's, and of a few attributions

  Whether some people involved in the MFA world likes it or not, I will be clearing up a few mysteries of the authentication practices of MFA experts. Experts of artists foundations of particular masters, or should I say long dead artists, art experts who are in-charge of these places are very reluctant to disclose factual findings. A lot of these known facts have been know by them and their colleagues for years.  Now if these findings were ever to reveal actual proof of what a few art connoisseurs believe and are now saying, about fakes in the museums and high end art collection actually being fakes, (50% or More it's thought), you might expect this type of behavior from them.

  Some when first understanding these problem believe that it shouldn't be all that difficult clearing this mess up, mainly by using the right technologies along with detailed analysis, as is supposedly done on all great masterful works of art. Well, a lot of these museums and owners of the art work are a little reluctant of have their own works looked at again by more suspicious minds.  They are afraid  maybe by using newer and better technologies than before, while depending less on these expert hands on intuitive inspections, or what ever else they want to call it, that the outcome may not come back the same as before and determined to be of an unknown artist hand. The amount of money loss in the MFA world wound be staggering.  This in itself should explain the whole dilemma that the art world is faced with. 

  No need to worry about these pieces of art that we have known as masterpieces for it seems forever now of hitting the museum's basement storage facilities. Now after new technologies, if ever used and excepted, you could forget about spending your hard earned dollars in these places not knowing for sure what you're really looking at. China and the rest of these foreign countries museum artist's have taken care of that problem for us, for it seems as though anybody with a few hundred buck can have any of these masterpieces hanging in their own homes or wherever they like.  If you consider the paintings painted too bad, you can always donate them to "The Museum of Bad Art", which by the way is growing like a weed, just be careful not to donate the Real McCoy.

Cheers!
vanrijngo

Vincent van Gogh,... the other side of the coin!

Vincent van Gogh,... the other side of the coin!

This coin was created by the Dutch Mint and its' characteristics is disclaimed by the Dutch Vincent van Gogh Museum & MFA expertise, that something like this ever took place in Vincent's works of art, or as far as any other artists' works of art.  Totally not acceptable this day and age of computer science and scanning abilities.  Don't they think with new technologies and discoveries that some will have eyes which can see along with minds brains that works?   What exactly is their interests in disclaiming this?  Do you think possibly a lot of their own Vincent van Gogh's in their own possession would not contain these values and qualities, or come up to the artists' standards, and then concidered to be fake themselves by the use of these technologies?  Heaven forbid that this should happen and for them to be found out. 

Well,..from my studies,  Heaven hasn't a thing to do with it my artistic friends,... it's all about new technologies and the artists themselves, what they do and had done for centuries in the past and present, how they create their own works of art, the reasons and why.  How for all these centuries of artists making art, and how these qualities have evaded the MFA expertise is beyond my belief.  Well then,... here is another synopsis,.... Say that it hasn't, ... and it's most likely one big conspiracy game involving just a few whales and sharks surrounding the world of fine art, mostly pertaining to the enormous amounts of money involved.  Now, just who would you look at if this were actually to be the true case?

I'll make up a short list and you can use your own judgments,... and most likely you will recall experiences of your own from people you have tried to have conversations with and get their opinions and help from in the past. Established artists Foundations, fine art auction houses, supposed fine art expertise from museums and large galleries around this world, Colleges, Universities and Art Academies, Historians, and finally Big Banking Institutes along with the very rich and wealthiest. Didn't the most of you know that all the higher educated elite are the ones who all the starving great artists from the past had sold all their works of art to?  If you believe this,... don't even think of reading anything about these two artists Vincent & Rembrandt, just look at the pictures and take these peoples words who have managed to control all their supposed works of art.

This one is a 5 E. silver coin and if your hold it just right you see a perfect image of Vincent just as you do on the 10 E. gold coin.

 

Is this world doomed with having to put up with MFA expertise of yesterday held over to this day, of almost total lack of artistic knowledge of the past masters of great artists while just using two examples of such artists,  Rembrandt and van Gogh.  Most totally rely on the Vincent van Gogh Foundation for their own evaluations and determinations of whether or not a painting or work of art was in-fact done by Vincent van Gogh. This would be like turning over all the consumer testing and reports of Ralph Nadar back to the industries and manufacturers to make their own testing and evaluations of there own products. What kind of shape do you suppose or think publics products would be in, about 20 years of this kind of evaluations. Well, I will tell you,... their product quality would become extinct, with only their original products being able to with stand consumer use, or trusted to be of good quality, and most likely the quality of products would become so expensive that only the rich would be able to afford the products which are able to with stand any age factor, and the public would have to suffice with the replicas that they are now producing for the general public only having to replace every so often. Just think about what I have just said, and ask yourself why the van Gogh Foundation should be the ones to authenticate Vincent's works of art, when they can't even see what he had done in his art work in the past or even get the dating right on the self-portraits now in their own collection.

Both Rembrandt and Vincent known mostly only by their first names are concidered by myself and some others to be the greatest artists from this world of fine art, and most who studies their art, meaning mostly other artists and art historians throughout this world do think they themselves understand them better than most.  Rembrandt has influenced more masters of art than any other artist in history. While the slipping of the last 336 years since Rembrandt's death, the experts are no closer to what he had actually done in his works of art either, and know very little about his life as an artist and as to his 63 year of life he spent mostly in Amsterdam. If they did, there would be absolutely no question as to his original works of art being done by him without a question of the manor of or the circle of this artist. Rembrandt had fallen out of favor of the experts in his own day as an artist, and as it continue today, taking away from his oeuvre some of the most important historical paintings that he had painted. The MFA experts continue to look at his works of art with contempt, to do the same today as was done in his day. One might say that Vincent van Gogh is the next greatest, and by  saying so, you can also consider him the greatest along with Rembrandt. I will not elaborate on this too much, but just look at the controversies over both their works of art. The two greatest artists of this world while most experts and Historians can't even tell if the art work was done by them or come close to the right dates that they were created, ones still considered to be their own works.  What exactly is their MFA expertise when they refuse to comment, even on controversial art with good reviews from the brave one who actually put their own reputations at stake, and while in the positions they are in, join the rest of the powerful ones who makes their threats for them to remain silent on the matters.  Is this what they call fine art expertise? vanrijngo