Vintage commentary …

… Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers’s ‘Enterprise” by Hilton Kramer - The New Criterion. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… we are bluntly informed that Rembrandt was “a man of the market,” and this is intended to mean something more than the mere fact that he sold his paintings for money. And it is not meant to mean anything good, of course. The fact that Rembrandt achieved both a personal and artistic freedom by means of the market is taken by Professor Alpers to be crucial to the indictment she draws up against him.

Making a living from his art by selling his paintings. The bastard.