Delves into the world of people who passionately love and collect the paintings of Rembrandt.

In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi's patronage of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Today, the contemporary section of the Iranian National Collection--most of which continues to languish in storage--is considered one of the most significant collections of modern art outside...

"Entertaining and accessible, 'Good, Better, Best' coaches novices and devotees in choosing the highest quality items. It does this by featuring three photographs of a good, better, and best example of hundreds of antiques that, together, show the antiquer exactly how to distinguish the treasure from the not a treasure. Packed with more than two hundred full-color photographs, this ingenious handbook is broad in scope and covers everything from brass...