As a boy he attended Latin school and was enrolled at the University of Leiden, although according to a contemporary he had a greater inclination towards painting; he was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh, with whom he spent three years.[11] After a brief...
Rembrandt: Dirigido por Alexander Korda. Com Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman. The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
Another consequence of his financial troubles was being barred from selling his paintings by the Amsterdam Painters Guild, of which he had been a member since 1634. To get around this problem, his common-law wife, Hendrickje, and his son, Titus, established an art dealership in 1660, naming...
One of the most remarkable features of Rembrandt’s presentation of himself in his self-portraits is his attire, the diversity and frequently prominent treatment of which significantly contribute to the great variety of self-portraits in his oeuvre. As c
At the Latin School he would have read the classics and must have learned Latin and perhaps some Greek, which would have been good preparation for becoming a history painter, to which Rembrandt would soon aspire. Although, at age fourteen, in 1620, Rembrandt was registered at the University,...
Rembrandt had known Saskia over a long period: two portraits of her are dated 1632 and three others 1633; in addition, in the same year he painted a portrait of Saskia’s sister. During the eight years of their union the image of the young woman animated his work both as a painter ...
Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Beginning when Rembrandt’s reputation was at its height, the film then tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression, following the death of his wife to the ...
Known for his self-portraits and biblical scenes, Dutch artist Rembrandt is considered to be one of the greatest painters in European history.
often find the clown. And one of Watteau’s most famous series of paintings takesCommedia dell’arteas their subject. One of the most famous of these, is his painting of Pierrot. Baudelaire, no doubt, was aware of this work, and wrote about it in his famous essayThe Painter of Modern ...
When the painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1607-1669) died 350 years ago, he left us some 90 self-portraits showing his aging face. Recognizing aging characteristics of the male face is fundamental to the planning of a surgical procedure and a prerequisite when communicating to the male patient. ...