#Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn

[artsandculture]

The Return of the Prodigal Son (1669) 🎨 Rembrandt 🏛️ The State Hermitage Museum 📍 St. Petersburg, Russia

In the Gospel According to Luke (15: 11-32), Christ relates the parable of the prodigal son. A son asks his father for his inheritance and leaves the parental home, only to fritter away all his wealth. Arriving at last at sickness and poverty, he returns to his father's house. The old man is blinded by tears as he forgives his son, just as God forgives all those who repent. This parable in Rembrandt's treatment is addressed to the heart of everyone: "We should be glad: for this son was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the highest act of human wisdom and spiritual nobility, and it takes place in absolute silence and stillness. The drama and depth of feeling are expressed in the figures of both father and son, with all the emotional precision with which Rembrandt was endowed. The broad, sketchy brushstrokes of the artist's late style accentuate the emotion and intensity of this masterly painting.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

After Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn - Goethe's Faust.

[laclefdescoeurs]

A woman weeping, Follower of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

[geritsel]

Rembrandt van Rijn - Etchings that fit well with Easter, in random order.

[rwpohl]

detail: the return of the prodigal son, rembrandt harmensz van rijn 1665

[carlandcorals]

Devil in Red

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Portrait of an Old Man in Red

[nataliakoptseva]

Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn - Artemis, detail

[yama-bato]

Rembrandt van Rijn,

Portrait of Oopjen Coppit, oil on canvas, 207.5x132cm, 1634 (detail). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Portrait de Oopjen Coppit en costume à la française

1634

Rembrandt, Harmensz. van Rijn Pays-Bas, École de

[contremineur]

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Woman bathing her feet at a brook (etching on laid paper, 1658)

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[robert-hadley]

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Self-Portrait in aCap, Wide-eyed and Open-mouthed. Etching and drypoint, 1630.

[portraituresque]

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn - Self portrait

[paintingslaurlikes]

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Young Woman in Profile. 1632. Oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn - Woman bathing in a river, 1654.

[simena]

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Flora (detail)

[geritsel]

Rembrandt van Rijn - Reclining Female Nude, etching, 1658.

[worldsandemanations]

Details Portrait de Oopjen Coppit en costume à la française 1634 Rembrandt, Harmensz. van Rijn