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December 13, 2018
in Art & Architecture

Meet the innovative printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn

December 13, 2018
in Art & Architecture

Timothy J. Standring– Rembrandt van Rijn was the Alfred Hitchcock of the Golden Age of Dutch painters. Like the British director—who made cameo appearances in many of his films—Rembrandt placed himself in his compositions: as a mendicant, as a helper who holds the arm of Christ in the Descent from

August 2, 2011
in Humanities, Medieval & Renaissance History, Religion

Rembrandt’s Revolutionary Jesus

August 2, 2011
in Humanities, Medieval & Renaissance History, Religion

How could a man who lived a millennium and a half after Jesus have drawn him from life? Because Rembrandt was the first artist to use a live model for Christ, the origins of his portraits remained a mystery for a long time. Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, edited by Lloyd DeWitt, discusses these paintings and drawings from an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.