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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-6/
- Published: 2015-04-17T16:35:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:27.000Z
- Description: Self-portraits Rembrandt painted, sketched, or etched in his lifetime = 80
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Rembrandt, "Self-portrait in oriental attire with poodle" (1631-33), oil on oak panel. The artist created around 80 self-portraits in his lifetime. (via Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/04/rembrandtpoodle.jpg)

Rembrandt, “Self-portrait in oriental attire with poodle” (1631–33), oil on oak panel. The artist created around 80 self-portraits in his lifetime. (via Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)

*Inspired by the* [*Harper’s Index*](http://harpers.org/departments/harpers-index/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* [*Sum of the Arts*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/sum-of-the-arts/) *is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.*

Self-portraits Rembrandt painted, sketched, or etched [in his lifetime](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/arts/international/with-rembrandt-the-selfie-takes-on-new-meaning.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **80**

Inches one of the tiniest Alexander Calder sculptures will stand in [an exhibition of his smallest works](http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/04/alexander-calder-small-works?ref=hyperallergic.com) opening next week at Dominique Lévy Gallery in New York = **1**

Rusting American warplanes [expelled to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11531006/Tiny-Kent-museum-wins-battle-with-US-Military-over-rusty-war-planes.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) after three decades at a village museum in Kent, England = **2**

Casts of Alberto Giacometti’s 1947 “Pointing Man” [already in museum collections](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/giacometti-sculpture-poised-set-auction-record-30358549?ref=hyperallergic.com) out of six made (with one heading to auction May 11) = **4**

Height in feet of [the towering contrabass saxophone](http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/musical-instruments/of-note/2015/contrabass-saxophone?ref=hyperallergic.com) on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art = **6.7**

Hours artist Leanne Wijnsma [spent hand digging](http://popupcity.net/hand-digging-tunnels-in-the-city-the-cure-to-mental-stress/?ref=hyperallergic.com) one of her deepest “Escape” tunnels in the Netherlands = **14**

Pieces of letterpress type [unearthed from Harvard Yard](http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/04/peabody-archaeology-harvard-yard?ref=hyperallergic.com), much dating to the 17th century, being matched to books at Harvard University’s libraries = **28**

Percentage of the 136 [participants in the main exhibition](http://www.artnews.com/2015/04/11/whats-the-gender-breakdown-of-the-2015-venice-biennale/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the Venice Biennale, opening next month, who are women = **33**

Human and animal mummies [in the collections](http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/family%5Fvisits/night%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fmuseum/mummies%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fmuseum.aspx?ref=hyperallergic.com) of the British Museum = over **400**

Years ago that [the oldest known stone tools](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/15/399937433/new-discovery-of-worlds-oldest-tools?ref=hyperallergic.com) were believed made in Africa = **3,300,000**