This spring, the Jewish Museum presents a major exhibition examining how the heroic story of Queen Esther served as a popular source of inspiration for Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1609) and his ...
Five years after the start of an intensive examination of Rembrandt ... famous artwork has now begun. “The entire life of the 400-year-old painting is becoming visible again,” Casper van ...
The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the ...
The Night Watch—Rembrandt’s most famous painting, according to the museum—is 12 feet tall and more than 14 feet long. It depicts a group of civic guardsmen , Amsterdam’s 17th-century local ...
Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits ... the task of showing people all that they wanted to see. Rembrandt, Hansken, 1637. Albertina Museum. For more than two ...
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