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Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

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Ruth Leon recommends… Rembrandt: Restoring a Masterpiece

Look again:   European Paintings—Rembrandt, Restoring a Masterpiece

Here’s another of those ‘behind the scenes at the museum’ videos that I love so much.
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This one has curator Adam Eaker  and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, painted in 1653, and now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.

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First recording of an early 19th century Portuguese radical chamber version of Mozart's Requiem

First recording of an early 19th century Portuguese radical chamber version of Mozart’s Requiem

Six new operas about Brummies past and present: Birmingham Opera Company invites you to RE-WIRE your mind

Six new operas about Brummies past and present: Birmingham Opera Company invites you to RE-WIRE your mind

A delightful jeu d’esprit: a strong cast has great fun with Peter Tranchell’s 1950s operetta Twice a Kiss

The piece that made me fall in love with song: mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston on Schumann’s Dichterliebe & recording the songs that make her want to get up in the morning

The Chosen One: Leipzig's Got Talent!

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