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Rembrandt in the Blood”, Russell Shorto’s profile of art dealer Jan Six XI and his discovery of a previously differently attributed work by Rembrandt in the March 3, 2019 issue of The New York Times Magazine might be a little too long on psychological explanations for Six’s motivation and on intrigues between art dealers, but it does give the greater public an insight into Rembrandt’s method of representing lace, an explanation of why Old Master paintings look better in candlelight than in electric light, and an understanding of how one goes about building a case that a painting was painted by Rembrandt and not by one of his contemporaries. If it takes intimations of deception and breach of confidence to entice people to read the article and learn this, so be it. #conservationinthenews