RembrandtLeiden 1606 - Amsterdam 1669
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Find out how a little knowledge of studio life goes a long way
Filippino Lippi’s Dead Christ (c.1500) and the Artist’s Turban
Michelangelo's last Pieta, left unfinished at his death but intended for his tomb, helps us make sense of his more famous version carved when he was a young man.
Michelangelo’s Florentine Pieta
How Rembrandt used gold chains as a symbol of the high honor due to him as a great master
Rembrandt and the Artist’s Gold Chain
How realism and the use of models fools the eyes. Art, one must remember, is never 'real' and never 'photographic'.
Rembrandt’s A Bearded Man in a Cap (1657)
See how Rembrandt turned an anatomy lesson into a scene in his studio (in his mind).
Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
How the setting is so rarely what you think....you must think differently
Rembrandt’s Bathsheba at Her Bath (1643)
See the sight which changes the meaning of all Rembrandt's art: Rembrandt is Christ
Rembrandt’s Crucifixion (1631)
See how Joseph is an artist staring at his work of art inside the artist's head
Rembrandt’s Holy Family with a Cat (1654)
See how Rembrandt concisely expresses the underlying idea of art in a Roman myth
Rembrandt’s Lucretia (1666)
Learn about other methods Rembrandt used to convey his message
Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Young Woman (1632)
This painting which depicts Rembrandt crucifying Christ is an excellent example of the alternative way to read art, not viewing it as an illustration but as poetry.
Rembrandt’s Raising of the Cross (c.1633)
See how one great master resides in another, or sometimes two.
Rembrandt’s Self-portrait at a Window and Matisse’s Self-portrait as an Etcher
Scholars have long wondered why Rembrandt would represent himself in expensive and extravagant clothing from a century earlier even though they know that the etched self-portrait is based on an engraving of the fifteenth-century painter Jan Gossaert, known as Mabuse.
Rembrandt’s Self-portrait in Sixteenth-Century Costume (1638)
This painting of a young Rembrandt holding up a dead bird as though he were the hunter has troubled art scholars for years.
Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with a Dead Bittern
Scholars have sometimes wondered why the young Rembrandt painted himself wearing a gorget, the metal collar worn by soldiers of the period, when he himself was never in the military.
Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with Gorget
Learn how to look and what to look for, and how touching is painting
Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Saskia (c.1635)
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