#Rembrandt van Rijn

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn The Star of the Kings: A Night Piece, 1651 etching with drypoint

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▪︎ Juno.

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn

Date: ca. 1662-1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Title: The Philosopher in Meditation Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) Date: 1632 Genre: genre painting Period: Dutch Golden Age Medium: oil on oak wood Dimensions: 28 cm (11 in) high x 34 cm (13.3 in) wide Location: Louvre Museum, Paris

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Lucretia / Suicide of Lucretia (1664) Historically attributed to Rembrandt but not by the "Rembrandt Research Project"

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Angel Standing, attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 17th century

pen and brown ink over traces of charcoal on laid paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Dimos Skoulakis (1939-2014) — Anatomy Lesson on a Cubist Nude by Picasso [oil on canvas, 1999]

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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

Rembrandt van Rijn

oil on canvas, 1653

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The Three Trees by Rembrandt van Rijn. Dutch, 1643 CE.

Saint Louis Art Museum.

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tamino, 'willow' / rembrandt van rijn, 'the abduction of proserpina'

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Reclining female nude (engraving, 1658)

This is one of Rembrandt's most beautiful and understated works. The artist made this print late in his career, by which time he had begun to create remarkable painterly effects never before seen in printmaking, with combinations of velvety drypoint lines, films of ink left on the printing plate, and variously hued papers. This impression was printed on golden toned Japanese paper, which brings an underlying warmth to the dark image.

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Minerva in Her Study

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 1606-1669)

Date: 1635

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United State

Description

In this imposing masterpiece, Minerva looks up from her large folio and gazes out toward the viewer as though some distraction has interrupted her quiet concentration on the text. Golden light illuminates her powerful face with wide-open eyes and alert expression, as well as the long, flowing blonde hair cascading onto her shoulder. Her regal appearance is enhanced by the laurel wreath crowning her head, her pearl necklace, and the heavily embroidered cloak draped over her shoulders. Beneath the cloak is an ample blue garment tied with a knotted blue sash over a light gray skirt and a white shirt. In the background are more volumes, a globe, a golden helmet on a draped piece of fabric, a spear, and a large shield with the Gorgon’s head hanging from a column.

As one of the main Olympian deities, Minerva had various functions and attributes. She was the virgin goddess of war, but unlike her counterparts Mars or Bellona, she was neither belligerent nor cruel. Her inventive strategy led to victory and she was therefore, paradoxically, also the goddess of peace. She was also the goddess of wisdom, art, poetry, medicine and crafts, especially those of spinning and weaving. Rembrandt van Rijn was fascinated with biblical and mythological subjects such as Minerva, and he firmly believed that depictions of them and their stories comprised the most significant of all genres of painting. This principle, shared by collectors, theorists and painters alike, lay at the very core of Dutch humanistic traditions. Throughout his career, Rembrandt’s history paintings stand apart from those of other Dutch artists because of his ability to convey human feelings and emotions to gods and goddesses, and mere mortals from the Bible and mythology. In the mid-1630s, shortly after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, he radically transformed the style and focus of his history paintings, executing works such as Minerva in Her Study at a scale and with a visual power unprecedented in the Netherlands. It is not certain what motivated him to paint in such an imposing manner after he left Leiden, but probably he sought to emulate and even compete with the achievements of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1641), then universally recognized as the greatest history painter of the day.

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A Scholar in His Study (Faust), Rembrandt van Rijn, 1652.

Faust, Part One, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808.

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Title: The Prophetess Anna Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) Date: 1639 Genre: portraiture, religious art (Christianity) Period: Dutch Golden Age Medium: oil on oak wood Dimensions: 79.5 cm (31.2 in) high x 61.7 cm (24.2 in) wide Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

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Saul and David

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Date: ca. 1651-1654

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

The Envy of Saul

In consideration of David’s frequent success and amazing skills in his service, King Saul promoted David, who continued to amaze his men and all Israel. Unfortunately, Saul had developed an ego problem, so he begins to resent David especially when he hears people singing, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands” (v. 18:7). In bitter envy, Saul tries to kill David, whom he now sees as the enemy instead of a loyal servant. Thus, the arrangement of a marriage between Saul’s daughter Michal and David is more about Saul’s desire to ensnare or ultimately assassinate David than a holy union, ironically.

About the Painting

The painting depicts Saul, the king of the Israelites. He is visually touched by the harp playing. The depicted situation comes from 1 Samuel 16:14-23 and 1 Samuel 18:8-11, in which King Saul is abandoned by the Holy Spirit, and God sends him an evil spirit. It taunts Saul, and only David’s harp playing can relax him. Later David married Michal, one of Saul’s daughters. He eventually succeeded his father-in-law as King of the Israelites.

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Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch,1606–1669)

Man in Oriental Costume, 1635

oil on linen

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Lucretia by Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1664

oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.