The College has decided to significantly accelerate the renovation schedule for the aging Houses in an effort to halt deterioration more quickly and less expensively.
Under the new plan, detailed by College officials last week, all upperclass Houses will undergo extensive renovations within the next four years, instead of eight to 10 years as planned a year ago.
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The Fogg Art Museum's Dutch art specialist last week defended the authenticity of two Rembrandt portraits in the museum, which a team of scholars earlier this month said were probably not painted by the Dutch masters.
The group of Dutch researchers, who scientifically analyzed the paintings' pigment, said Rembrandt's self-portrait and "Portrait of Man" may be among 44 paintings incorrectly attributed to Rembrandt.
But Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Art and one of the nation's preeminent Rembrandt scholars, said he had "no reason to doubt that the materials with which the two paintings were made went available to a 17th-century artist."
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