#The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt

[nalyra-dreaming]

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That's the exhibition of the "stolen Rembrandt" Daniel refers to in episode 2x01 that Assad went to (a while back, on his IG)

[raethereptile]

Daniel sassing about the stolen Rembrandt sends me every time; because you know, as an investigative journalist, he definitely had a go at solving the Gardner heist and got nowhere. And now "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee" is just- hanging on the wall. Right in front of his salad.

[90sgreggaraki]

Ramsey, Russ. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art Through the Eyes of Faith. United States, Zondervan, 2022. x

[summerfevers]

running """joke""" of peter threatening to send neal back to prison is OVER. clear as day in my mind i can invision this instead. peter, believing neal to be 35 in s1 (a full decade older than he actually was), has a conspiracy corkboard in his basement (why don't the burkes have a basement?) full of his 'evidence' of how neal and mozzie were the ones behind the isabella stewart gardner museum heist. here is the police sketch of the suspects so you can see where peter is coming from with this:

neal thinks this is hilarious. he's flattered, honestly. no one in the fbi is seriously investigating this, this is peter's passion project. he thinks neal was like 17 (the robbery was in 1990 btw) and that he was mozzie's apprentice or something. he thinks the thieves making sure the security guards taped up in the basement weren't uncomfortable and even chatting with them SCREAMS neal&mozzie shenanigans. this mystery of the ages heist that changed museum robbery forever is exactly the kind of bullshit neal and mozzie used to get up to.

but all good things must come to an end... at some point when peter is in his distrusting neal part of his friendship cycle he is REALLY leaning into this. tbh with neal's history he is getting a little worried that a court could be convinced of peter's tale. he has to break it to him.

peter has neal captive at the kitchen table, going over his "timeline of events" for the billionth time until neal is like "ok peter.... i have a confession to make." peter's expression at this can best be described as !!! "when the isabella stewart gardner museum was robbed in march 1990 i was..." peter is on the Edge Of His Fucking Seat "...five years old. i genuinely am stunned that you really believed that i'm 35. i was born in 1984. i literally did not even meet mozzie until like 6 months before i met YOU."

peter is fucking floored. his life is a lie. he put neal, a fucking baby? in jail? the implications this has for his five other caffrey-spiracy boards are far reaching and beyond what he can try to understand right now. he has been trying to pin the most infamous art crime of the last century on neal for years and his alibi is that he was in kindergarten.

[aboutoriginality]

[clonerightsagenda]

Reading another of the Chasing Vermeer books and started getting increasingly suspicious about the art heist they were describing and yup, the author took the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist and moved it to Chicago. Gardner's name got changed, but all the works of art are the same. Possibly the name change is because the story seems to be heading in a 'her ghost is still there' angle and it would be reasonable for the author not to want to make a real person's ghost a character but still this kind of feels like stolen valor on Boston's behalf.

[the-goya-jerker]

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee?

Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a painting that was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in 1990.

The bad news is, gang. I have a pavlovian response to this one where I get really horny when I see it, because I watched a vampire suck a guy off by this in 2022.

This single shot from Interview with the Vampire (2022) is enough to give me the vapors like some Victorian lady seeing a shirtless man for the first time.

Now. I will be honest, the painting itself is somewhat appealing to me. It does suffer from the men and the boat being too central of a focus, especially back to back with On the Storm.

I do enjoy the rich colors Rembrandt used, the warm golden shades against the dark cool of the sea. The divine seems to be reaching down to these men. (They're friends with Jesus or something idk).

Even sexier, the painting was stolen.

Oh, theft is enough to give any man a thrill. I love to see something stolen. I mean, obviously, it's a tragedy, I'm not big on how they cut the canvases out. Like, dude :/

Anyway, getting away scot free with so many paintings. I do love it.

Sexiest of all, is what the museum did with the frames left behind.

Like... look at that shit! Isn't that so sexy? The paintings were stolen and now there's just empty frames oh man...

I give the painting without the context of the theft a 5/10, with the theft? 7/10. But the empty frames? 10/10.

[arinewman7]

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Rembrandt van Rijn

oil on canvas, 1633

[all-action-all-picture]

Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633). Stolen from a museum in Boston in 1990 and never recovered.

[artisbackbone]

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) by Rembrandt van Rijn

Current Location: unknown, stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art: 'The Storm on the Sea of Galilee', 1633 by Rembrandt van Rijn)

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Danger, when it is always imminent, does harm. It doesn't need to actually arrive. You exhaust yourself in the act of forever looking over your shoulder. Your body readies itself to fight and never quite discharges that chemical cocktail. You channel it instead into anger and self-pity and anxiety and hopelessness. You divert it into work. But really what you do, with every fibre of your being, is watch. You are incessantly, exhaustingly alert. You don't dare ever let up, just in case the danger takes advantage of your inattention. I've forgotten what it feels like to have space in my brain for anything other than watching. For a long time I kept working teaching, pitching articles, writing editorial reports and for a while, that felt like a life raft. But then, incrementally, it became impossible. I was aware of a fog descending, a seizing of the gears, but it seemed diffuse until now. 

~Katherine May (Book: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age)

[Philo Thoughts]

[heepthecheep]

Feel like pure shit just want them back xx

[boselliart]

[thecrazywriter]

Do you think classic artists talked about their work like we do today? Like, were people saying "omg Rembrandt you made self-insert fanart? that is so cringe"

[obsidian-order-of-course]

Day 25

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt

The lighting in Rembrandt’a art is impeccable! I may not particularly be a fan of the religious themes, but you can’t deny that he was incredibly talented and that that was the most common theme for art of the time.