- Title: Catch 5
- Date: 9th March 1992
- Summary: ARISTOTLE CONTEMPLATING THE BUST OF HOMER. IN 1652 REMBRANDT WAS DESPERATE FOR MONEY. HIS CREDITORS WERE BEGINNING TO CLOSE IN. HE HAD STILL NOT PAID BACK THE LOAN ON HIS FAR TOO BIG HOUSE IN AMSTERDAM. HE COULD NOT STOP SPENDING MONEY RECKLESSLY ON FANCY ANTIQUE COSTUMES, GREEK BUSTS, ITALIAN PAINTINGS. THEN, OUT OF THE BLUE, A SICILIAN NOBLEMAN COMMISSIONED A PAINTING. A PHILOSOPHER, HALF-LENGTH. HOLDING OFF HIS CREDITORS WITH NEW LOANS, REMBRANDT PAINTED A MASTERPIECE: ARISTOTLE CONTEMPLATING THE BUST OF HOMER. CONTEMPLATING THIS, JOSEPH HELLER, AUTHOR OF 'CATCH 22', CONTEMPLATES REMBRANDT, AMAZED AT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BANAL CHAOS OF HIS LIFE AND THE ASTONISHING POWER AND BEAUTY OF HIS PAINTING.
- Description:JOSEPH HELLER INTRODUCES 5 PAINTINGS BY REMBRANDT
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:INDEPENDENT IMAGE LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:09/03/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s